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tumbril

/ˈtʌmbɹɪl/ noun

Latin root: tumberellus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about tumbril at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

Origin

From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).

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