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

Examples

• The prisoners were loaded into the tumbril for their final journey.
• Marie Antoinette rode in a tumbril to her execution.
• The farmer used a tumbril to transport hay from the field.
• The old tumbril creaked as it rolled down the cobblestone street.
• Historical paintings often depict the infamous tumbrils of the Terror.
• He tilted the tumbril to dump the grain into the storage bin.