tum|bril

tum|bril
tum|brel or tum|bril «TUHM bruhl», noun.
1. any one of various two-wheeled carts, especially: a) a cart used for hauling and dumping manure on a farm, collecting garbage, and carrying other loads. b) such a cart used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution. c) a covered cart formerly used to carry ammunition, tools, and spare parts, especially one belonging to a particular battery or other artillery unit.
2. an instrument of punishment of former times, especially a ducking stool.
[probably < Old French tumberel, tomberel dump cart < tomber (let) fall or tumble, probably < a Germanic word]

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