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 […]
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Tumbril
//ˈtʌmbɹɪl//
Synonyms for "tumbril" (4 found)
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4 translations across 2 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- каруца noun (cart)
- кола noun (cart)
French
2 entries- charrette noun (cart)
- charrette des condamnés noun (cart used to carry prisoners to death)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […]
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