Crossword clues for tumbril
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tumbrel \Tum"brel\, Tumbril \Tum"bril\, n. [OF. tomberel, F. tombereau, fr. tomber to fall, to tumble; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Tumble.]
A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
A rough cart.
--Tusser.
--Tatler.(Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool. 2 A cart which opens at the back to release its load. 3 A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Revolution. 4 (context UK obsolete English) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
WordNet
n. a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution [syn: tumbrel]
Usage examples of "tumbril".
Faraday glanced at Imber, beginning to wonder how many other Tumbril files were in his briefcase.
The Tumbril meeting with Brian Imber was due to start in a couple of minutes.
In this sense, as Imber kept reminding him, Tumbril had turned the investigative process on its head.
Faraday was to make the arrangements with the MoD police, and further ensure that the Tumbril team Imber, Prebble and Joyce were to be turned away at the guardhouse when they appeared tomorrow morning at Whale Island.
Tumbrils and caissons, limbers and ambulances, wagons and more wagons, the horses and oxen dipping their heads with the effort of hauling their loads under the hot Spanish sun.
September morning, his hair dressed in the latest fashion, the finest Mechlin lace around his wrists, playing a final game of piquet with his younger brother, as the tumbril bore them along through the hooting, yelling crowd of the half-naked starvelings of Paris.
Half a century later we find sturdy barons setting up their tumbrils and gallows.
The 'amende honorable' over, the executioner again carried her to the tumbril, not giving her the torch any more: the doctor sat beside her: all was just as before, and the tumbril went on towards La Greve.
It may be seasonable to muse on the sixteenth Louis and the bride's great-aunt, as the nearing procession is, I see, appositely crossing the track of the tumbril which was the last coach of that respected lady.
It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.