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TUMBRIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tumbril mean? 

TUMBRIL (noun)
  The noun TUMBRIL has 1 sense:

1. a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolutionplay

  Familiarity information: TUMBRIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TUMBRIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tumbrel; tumbril

Hypernyms ("tumbril" is a kind of...):

dumpcart (a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling)


 Context examples 


The ship in which I sailed, was the first ever known to be driven within sight of that coast, and the king had given strict orders, that if at any time another appeared, it should be taken ashore, and with all its crew and passengers brought in a tumbril to Lorbrulgrud.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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