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tumbrel

/tuhm-bruhl/US // ˈtʌm brəl //UK // (ˈtʌmbrəl) //

桶,拇指姑娘,桶状物,桶装水

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
    • : a farmer's cart, especially one for hauling manure, that can be tilted to discharge its load.
    • : Obsolete. a two-wheeled covered cart accompanying artillery for carrying tools, ammunition, etc.

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Examples

  • You may see many such crowding round the guillotine or the tumbrel in pictures of the French Revolution.

  • There were some thirty men in this tumbrel, whose sole crime was foolish exaltation of thought and threatening language.

  • In some places, millers, if detected stealing corn, were placed in the tumbrel.

  • Her body bounded at every jolt of the tumbrel like a dead or broken thing; her gaze was dull and imbecile.

  • An inquisition held in 1383 discloses two markets, a merchant gild, pillory and tumbrel.