tumbril

Noun

tumbril (plural tumbrils)

1. a kind of mediaeval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool
2. a cart which opens at the back to release its load

   • 1800: 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 — The Times, 17 Mar 1800, p.3 col. B
   • 1994: 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. — Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

3. a cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution

7 letters in word "tumbril": B I L M R T U.

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