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tumbril

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtʌmbɹɪl/Part of speech nounSorted bilmrtuStarts with TEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A two-wheeled cart, especially one associated with carrying prisoners to execution.

Word origin

From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).

Used in a sentence

  • They then confined the Dean, while they rifled the house of every valuable article, as well as plate and money; all that was portable they loaded on Mr. Carleton’s own tumbril, to which they harnessed his horse […]
  • They’d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little tumbril of a cart and they’d put up a sign at the front that gave her history and the number of people she was known to have eaten.
  • This is a sixteenth-century work done by a Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, and it is called The Triumph of Death […] He studies the tumbrel filled with skulls.

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