tumbril

Plural: tumbrils

Noun

• An alternative spelling for TUMBREL, a two-wheeled cart.
• a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
• A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
• A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.
• A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
• A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

Examples

• The opponent’s tiles were a TUMBRIL of vowels, making any high-scoring word impossible.

Synonyms

tumbrel, dumpcart#Noun