tumbrel
pronunciation
How to pronounce tumbrel in British English:
UK ['tʌmbrəl]
How to pronounce tumbrel in American English:
US ['tʌmbrəl]
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- Noun:
- a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
Word Origin
- tumbrel (n.)
- mid-15c., "two-wheeled cart for hauling dung, stones, etc.," earlier an instrument of punishment of uncertain type (early 13c.), from Old French tomberel "dump cart" (Modern French tombereau), from tomber "(let) fall or tumble," possibly from a Germanic source (compare Old Norse tumba "to tumble," Old High German tumon "to turn, reel;" see tumble (v.)). Notoriously the name given to the carts used to take victims to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror (though illustrations often show four-wheeled carts, not true tumbrels).
Example
- 1. There was only one tumbrel today .
- 2. Red rock district tumbrel grain tube station food stores .
- 3. A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel .
- 4. The artist sketched the queen , by then aged 37 , as she passed by his window in a tumbrel , hair cut short and hands tied behind her back , ready for the guillotine .
- 5. Fem analysis of tumbrel internal-combustion engine cylinder cover based on solidworks .