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Definition: Tumbril |
TumbrilNoun1. A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tumbril" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
Synonym: TumbrilSynonym: tumbrel (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tumbril."
| "Tumbril" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tumbril" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tumbril"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qerre (cart, dray, oxcart, tumbrel, waggon, wagon, wain), karro municioni (tumbrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | боклуджийска кола (tumbrel), двуколка (buggy, cabriolet, cart, gig, tumbrel, whisky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kára (cart, gharry, handcart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kipvogn (tipping tumbril, tip-wagon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stortkar (tipping tumbril), kipkar (freight car US, rear tipper, small wagon, tip truck, tipping tumbril, tip-wagon, vehicle with tipping body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tombereau basculant (tipping tumbril), tombereau (tumbrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kippeinachsanhänger (tipping tumbril), Anhänger (acolyte, adherent, adherents, adherer, clinger, collectivist, devotee, devotees, disciple, enthusiast, fan, follower, hanger, henchman, label, marketeer, member, partisan, pendant, pendants, supporter, tag, trailer, trailers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σούστα (tipping tumbril), είδοσ κάρου, ανατρεπόμενη σούστα (tipping tumbril), δίτροχο αμάξι μεταφορών (tipping tumbril). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ע'ל" (carriage, cart, coach, trolley, waggon, wagon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | taliga (barrow, bier, cart, truck, tumbrel, wheelbarrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimorchietto ribaltabile (tipping tumbril), rimorchietto (tipping tumbril). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umbriltay carrinho de báscula (tipping tumbril). (various references) faeton pentru muniţii. (various references) самосвальная тележка (tumbrel), крытая двуколка (tumbrel). (various references) cùb (a tumbril). (various references) kola za prevoz osuđenika na gubilište (tumbrel), dvokolice (gig, quadriga, tumbrel). (various references) volquete (dump truck, tipping tumbril, tipping wagon), carro volquete (tipping tumbril), carreta (cart). (various references) kärra (Barrow, bus, carriole, cart, drag, kite, pushcart, pushcart man, truck, tumbrel). (various references) візок з перекидним кузовом (tumbrel). (various references) đạm (tumbrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tumbril": tumbrils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-m-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: blurt, bruit, built. | |
-3 letters: birl, blur, brim, brit, brut, burl, limb, litu, milt, tirl, trim. | |
-4 letters: bit, bum, bur, but, lib, lit, lum, mib, mil, mir, mut, rib, rim, rub, rum, rut, til, tub, tui, urb. | |
-5 letters: bi, it, li, mi, mu, ti, um, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-m-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tumbrils. | |
+3 letters: buttermilk, crumbliest, muliebrity. | |
+4 letters: buttermilks, microtubule, multibarrel, multicarbon, multimember, rambouillet, subterminal. | |
+5 letters: ambulatories, ambulatorily, microtubular, microtubules, muliebrities, multiproblem, rambouillets, subnormality. | |
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