Definitions for tumbrel

tumbrel tum·brel

Spelling: [tuhm-bruh l]
IPA: /ˈtʌm brəl/

Tumbrel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in tumbrel (belmrtu).

Definitions for tumbrel

noun

  1. one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
  2. a farmer's cart, especially one for hauling manure, that can be tilted to discharge its load.
  3. Obsolete. a two-wheeled covered cart accompanying artillery for carrying tools, ammunition, etc.

Origin of tumbrel

1275-1325; Middle English tumberell ducking stool Medieval Latin tumberellus Old French tumberel dump-cart, equivalent to tombe(r) to fall (see Examples for tumbrel

Picture to yourself a tumbrel of prisoners on their way to Lons-le-Saulnier.

A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel.

Millers, when they stole corn, were chastised by the tumbrel.

It was on the Place de la Nation, on a tumbrel—going to the guillotine.

Monseigneur de Belzunce sat upon the seat of the tumbrel laden with corpses, driven by a convict stained with every crime.

When the ducking was accomplished, the tumbrel was drawn out of the water by the ropes.

I only thought of Marie Antoinette after the tumbrel went by.

Sometimes, when placed on a tumbrel, it was used for ducking.

They had the right to erect gallows, pillory and tumbrel for the punishment of malefactors.

At Wootton Bassett there was a tumbrel, which, until within the last few years, was perfect.

Word Value for tumbrel
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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