1. a two-wheeled cart used during the French Revolution to carry condemned prisoners to the guillotine
Usage: historical
2. a farm cart that can be tilted to dump its load
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The prisoners were loaded into the tumbrel for their final journey.
• Marie Antoinette rode in a tumbrel to her execution.
• The farmer used an old tumbrel to haul manure to the fields.
• Historical paintings often depict the infamous tumbrels of the Terror.
• The wooden tumbrel creaked under the weight of the harvest.
• Revolutionary crowds would follow the tumbrels through the streets of Paris.