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tumbril

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

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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

  • It has been told, by every writer, that she could look over at her girlhood home, as her tumbril crossed Pont au Change.

  • The last tumbril would doubtless arrive in good time without their assistance!

  • But he sent her to the scaffold; and on November 9, 1793, the tumbril came to convey her to the guillotine.

  • The tumbril that bore him to execution was stopped on its way by the furious rabble, and he was torn in pieces by them.

  • That, 158 he answered, reminded him of another procession, a different cart; but it was more French than Castilian—the tumbril.