tumbrel 的定义
- 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.
tumbrel 近义词
等同于 cart
更多tumbrel例句
- 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.