tumbril in English
noun
1
an open cart that tilted backward to empty out its load, in particular one used to convey condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and they were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey.
noun
tumbrel
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "tumbril" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tumbril", or refer to the context using the word "tumbril" in the English Dictionary.
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2. 24 For those and other crimes the two felons were taken by tumbril to the Nuremberg scaffold.
3. For those and other crimes the two felons were taken by tumbril to the Nuremberg scaffold.