"Tumbril" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Tumbril" Meaning

A tumbril was a type of cart or two-wheeled vehicle, typically with a platform body, used for transporting goods or people, especially in 18th-century England. It was widely used as a public vehicle for hiring out " Cochney Wood Chariots" in the London streets.

"Tumbril" Examples

Tumbril Usage Examples

1. Historical Context

A Scottish prison cart, a large, open carriage used for public transportation and also commonly used for people who had been condemned to be hanged. From the 17th century, the word "tumbril" referred to a type of turned wood or a base of a garden path for holding pots.

2. From Jonathan Swift's 1729

In his Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift described his attack on the press by dressing as a turnkey and manning a mock "tumbril".

3. Late 18th Century Literary Use

In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities the condemned revolutionaries leave 'tumbrils' empty with heads to avoid their union with the Axe.

4. Scientific Term

Examples of tumbril types that found common use in the British Royal Naval fleet included buffer columns on forward quick-changing transfer cars (used only on longer lines), lesser buffer columns on mobile buffer wagons, up-Down Buffer Columns mainly driven and constructed in the standard Station Stix 1899 pattern.

5. Sentence Example

The royal soldiers were imprisoned at various dreary locations, only to be moved to incarceration in open four-wheeled carriage - a true masterpiece also called a ''cardboard cutout without the "open prison rat cart" designed mass cringe known at York prison October 1820 - a sealed great bingo toy dusty coil sick cholera ball clear ineffective subscription.