Tumbrel

Definition: Tumbrel

1. A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

Date "tumbrel" was first used: 1383. (references)

Synonym: tumbril (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

English words defined with "tumbrel": Coop. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tumbrel": CARTING. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're a French aristocrat, she's a simple girl of the people, and she won't even give you a tumbrel. Hah! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "tumbrel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qerre (cart, dray, oxcart, tumbril, waggon, wagon, wain), karro municioni (tumbril). (various references)

Arabic		‏عربة المزارع. (various references)

Bulgarian		боклуджийска кола (tumbril), двуколка (buggy, cabriolet, cart, gig, tumbril, whisky). (various references)

French		tombereau (tipping tumbril, tumbril), charrette. (various references)

German		Dungkarren. (various references)

Hungarian		taliga (barrow, bier, cart, truck, tumbril, wheelbarrow). (various references)

Manx		tumbryl, cairt eoylley (dung cart). (various references)

Pig Latin		umbreltay

Russian		самосвальная тележка (tumbril). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kola za prevoz osuđenika na gubilište (tumbril), dvokolice (gig, quadriga, tumbril). (various references)

Swedish		kärra (Barrow, bus, carriole, cart, drag, kite, pushcart, pushcart man, truck, tumbril). (various references)

Turkish		suçluların idam yerine götürüldüğü araba, kağnı, cephane arabası (ammunition wagon, caisson), at arabası (cart, Clarence, coach, fiacre, hack). (various references)

Ukrainian		візок з перекидним кузовом (tumbril). (various references)

Vietnamese		đạm (tumbril). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	tumberel. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tumbrel": tumbrels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tumbrel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Humbrol, timbel, Timbrell, Timbrelle, tubel, tumbrell, tumbrol, turmbel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tumbler.
	Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: butler, lumber, rumble, tumble.
	-2 letters: bluer, bluet, blume, blurt, brume, brute, buret, butle, lemur, muter, rebut, ruble, tuber, umbel, umber.
	-3 letters: belt, berm, blet, blue, blur, brut, burl, bute, lube, lure, lute, melt, merl, mule, mure, mute, rube, rule, term, true, tube, tule.
	-4 letters: bel, bet, bum, bur, but, elm, emu, let, leu, lum.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: stumbler, tumblers, tumbrels.
	+2 letters: stumblers.
	+3 letters: buttermilk, crumbliest, muliebrity, permutable, tumblerful.
	+4 letters: buttermilks, microtubule, multibarrel, multimember, perambulate, rambouillet, subterminal, troublesome, tumblerfuls.
	+5 letters: ambulatories, blabbermouth, hypermutable, microtubules, muliebrities, multiproblem, perambulated, perambulates, perambulator, rambouillets, surmountable, transmutable, troublemaker, unmarketable.
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