tumbril

tum·brel

or tum·bril T0408000 (tŭm′brəl)n.1. A two-wheeled cart, especially a farmer's cart that can be tilted to dump a load.2. A crude cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their place of execution, as during the French Revolution.

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[Middle English tumberell, from Old French tomberel, from tomber, to fall, perhaps of Germanic origin and akin to English tumble.]

tumbril

A two-wheeled cart used to take condemned prisoners to the guillotine.

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tumbril - a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolutiontumbreldumpcart - a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling