Tumbrel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A two-wheeled cart, especially a farmer's cart that can be tilted to dump a load.
  • n. A crude cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their place of execution, as during the French Revolution.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative form of tumbril.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
  • n. A rough cart.
  • n. A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
  • n. A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A low cart used by farmers for the removal of dung, etc.; a dung-cart.
  • n. A covered cart with two wheels, which accompanies artillery, for the conveyance of tools, ammunition, etc.
  • n. A chair fixed on a pair of wheels and having very long shafts used to punish scolds.
  • n. A sort of circular cage or crib, made of osiers or twigs, used in some parts of England for holding food for sheep in winter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
  • Equivalent
    tumbril   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dumpcart   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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