Usually means: Cart for transporting condemned prisoners.
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  1. tumbril: Merriam-Webster
  2. tumbril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tumbril: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. tumbril: Wiktionary
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  8. Tumbril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Tumbril: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tumbril: Rhymezone
  11. Tumbril: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tumbril: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tumbril: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tumbril: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. tumbril: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tumbril: Legal dictionary

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  1. tumbril: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tumbril)

noun:  (historical) A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
noun:  A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard; a dumpcart.
noun:  (historical) A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

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