tumbril
/ˈtʌmbrɪl/
词源链
- 英语English
tumbril
词源说明
From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).
释义
名词noun
- 1historicalA kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
- 2A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.
- 3historicalA cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.