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What is a tumbril?

What is a tumbril? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking stool.
  2. A cart which opens at the back to release its load.
  3. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
  4. (Britain, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
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The DS was scheduled for the chop the next year so it was natural that the poor SM was a tumbril ride from the guillotine.
He saw Jeanne, and only Jeanne, standing on the tumbril and being led to the guillotine.
Then she was put into the tumbril, and was started on her way to the scaffold.
The tumbril and the guillotine would not have made her weep.
Last time I fell in a shower-room I bled like a tumbril dandy and the hotel longed to be rid of me.
It has been told, by every writer, that she could look over at her girlhood home, as her tumbril crossed Pont au Change.

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