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Tumbril   Listen
noun
Tumbril, Tumbrel  n.  
1.
A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
2.
A rough cart.
3.
(Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
4.
A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. (Eng.)





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"Tumbril" Quotes from Famous Books



... much too narrow for your large consciences; and, though the court is spacious, the gate is too little for you to drive in with your coaches and six! No, not even your vis a vis, nor your phaetons neither, not so much as a tumbril or a buggie can get past! But perhaps you think to ride up to the gate, and there to cry, peccavi! and that then it will open, and you will be admitted? But, no! no! I tell you, no! You shall never be able to utter more than pec, pec, pec; and while ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
... with black sashes—the Hapsburg colours. He had a carriage, of course, but, like Sheridan's, it was hired, though drawn by his own horses. This carriage was described as being shaped like a sea-shell; and 'the Tatler' calls it 'an open tumbril of less size than ordinary, to show the largeness of his limbs and the grandeur of his personage to the best advantage.' The said limbs were Fielding's especial pride: he gloried in the strength of his leg and ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
... infantry; he saw, through the whirlwind of dust, the vague outlines of a tumbril and horse standing below in the ditch, and he ran along the grassy depression towards the vehicle. And now he saw the driver, kneeling in the cart, his blue blouse a mass of blood, his discoloured face staring out at the ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Tumbril" :   tumbrel


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