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Definition of tumbrel:

°a kind of mediaeval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.
°a cart which opens at the back to release its load.
"1997: This is a sixteenth-century work done by a Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, and it is called The Triumph of Death (...). He studies the tumbrel filled with skulls. -- Don DeLillo, Underworld"
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Definition of tumbrel:

°a kind of mediaeval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.
°a cart which opens at the back to release its load.
"1997: This is a sixteenth-century work done by a Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, and it is called The Triumph of Death (...). He studies the tumbrel filled with skulls. -- Don DeLillo, Underworld"
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