tumbril 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.
tumbril 近义词
等同于 wagon
更多tumbril例句
- 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.