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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.
- A cart which opens at the back to release its load.
- A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- (UK, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
Exempel
- They then confined the Dean, while they rifled the house of every valuable article, as well as plate and money; all that was portable they loaded on Mr. Carleton’s own tumbril, to which they harnessed his horse [...].
- They’d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little tumbril of a cart and they’d put up a sign at the front that gave her history and the number of people she was known to have eaten.
- This is a sixteenth-century work done by a Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, and it is called The Triumph of Death (…). He studies the tumbrel filled with skulls.
- It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand [...].
- If there would be former freemasons on the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror, they would be numbered too in the ranks of the émigré armies and counter-revolutionary Chouan rebels, and in tumbrils bound for the guillotine.
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