2 example sentences using tumbril.
Tumbril used in a sentence
Tumbril in a sentence as a noun
I also tend to be mildly pessimistic and I think tumbrils await my cohort, for the wrongs done to future history: we really did **** in the swimming pool and expect you to learn to swim in it, and then clean it up. We were not kind.
For those responsible, I prescribe public flogging -- lest this statement be mistaken for some sort of metaphor, as is regrettably common in these parts, let me say that by "public flogging" I mean that they be taken in tumbrils to the handiest public square, there to be tied to a post and administered ten lashes apiece at the least; for repeat offenders, the gallows should serve. Barbaric, you say?
Tumbril definitions
a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
See also: tumbrel