Tumbril: Definition and part of speech

Tumbril

  1. n. A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
  2. n. A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
  3. n. A rough cart.
  4. n. A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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