TUMBRIL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Synonyms:

tumbrel; tumbril

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tumbril" is a kind of...):

dumpcart (a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling)

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