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Tumbril   Listen
noun
Tumbril, Tumbrel  n.  
1.
A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
2.
A rough cart.
3.
(Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
4.
A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. (Eng.)





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"Tumbril" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficulty in mounting the tumbril; he had lost a great deal of blood and his wounds pained him cruelly. The driver whipped up his jade and the procession got under way ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France
... key—guarded on sight. The next twenty-four hours would see him unmasked, awaiting his trial and condemnation under the scathing indictment prepared by Fouquier-Tinville, the unerring Public Prosecutor. The day after that, the tumbril and the guillotine for that execrable English spy, and the boundless sense of satisfaction that his last intrigue had aborted in such ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... in plenty and read descriptions galore of that last ride of the Widow Capet going to her death in the tumbril, with the priest at her side and her poor, fettered arms twisted behind her, and her white face bared to the jeers of the mob; but the physical presence of those precious useless baubles, which had cost so much and yet had bought so little for her, made ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... terrified good people from their labours in the field. Of all this, nothing was heard for a long time in the valley; but at last one of the commanders pushed an army over the pass by forced marches, and for three days horse and foot, cannon and tumbril, drum and standard, kept pouring downward past the mill. All day the child stood and watched them on their passage—the rhythmical stride, the pale, unshaven faces tanned about the eyes, the discoloured regimentals and the tattered flags, filled him with a ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... torture was very near. Robespierre fell, and Simon, the Barbarous, accompanied him in the same tumbril to the guillotine, and shared his fate. Barras, the new dictator, made it almost his first care to visit the Temple; and, from what his colleagues and himself saw there, they came to the conclusion that some more judicious control was needed than that of the rough guards who ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous


Words linked to "Tumbril" :   tumbrel


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