tumbrel
noun
tum·brel ˈtəm-brəl 
variants or tumbril
1
: a farm tipcart
2
: a vehicle carrying condemned persons (such as political prisoners during the French Revolution) to a place of execution
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel. 
Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021 All of a sudden women recoiled, the ethos tilted, and now the tumbrel is moving briskly through Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and beyond, carrying lechers, perverts, and boors into job-threatening disgrace. Alessandra Stanley, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2018
Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021 All of a sudden women recoiled, the ethos tilted, and now the tumbrel is moving briskly through Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and beyond, carrying lechers, perverts, and boors into job-threatening disgrace. Alessandra Stanley, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2018 Word History
Etymology
Middle English tomrel, from Old French tomberel, from tomber to tumble, perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German tūmōn to reel — more at tumble
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- creeping disk
- creeping eruption
- creeping fern
- creeping fescue
- creeping fig
- creeping forget-me-not
- creeping greenhead
- creeping hemlock
- creeping indigo
- creeping jennie
- creeping Jenny
- creeping juniper
- creeping lawyer
- creeping loosestrife
- creeping out
- creeping oxeye
- creeping palsy
- creeping paralysis
- creeping phlox
- creeping pine
- creeping sailor
- creeping Sally
- creeping snowberry
- creeping sow thistle
- creeping spear grass