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单词 tumbril cart
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tumbril cart
tumbril cart n. now chiefly historical a farm cart designed to tilt backwards to tip out its load, typically having two broad wheels and a wide, flat body; (in later use esp.) a cart of this type as used in the French Revolution to transport condemned prisoners to execution; = sense 1a.
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1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. L8v A tumbrell Cart.
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 101 The application of chalk rubbish, i.e. soft chalk, to the land, after the rate of at least ten tumbril cart-loads per acre.
1939 Life 24 Apr. 50/2 Cries of ‘Death to the aristocrats’ rose from the ragged mob behind the tumbrel cart.
2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. news review 6/5 You could almost hear the creaking of the tumbrel cart that carried prisoners to the guillotine.
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