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noun 
  1. a kind of mediaeval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool
  2. a cart which opens at the back to release its load
  • 1800: 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 , to which they harnessed his horse " The Times, 17 Mar 1800, p.3 col. B
  • 1994: They"d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little 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. " Cormac McCarthy?, The Crossing
    1. a cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the w:French Revolution, French Revolution
  • Etymology: From Old French tumberel (in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber "to fall".


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