What's the difference between tumbrel and tumbril?
Tumbrel
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Tumbril
Example Sentences:
(1) It's the disembodied sound of Ukip, of tea parties, of tumbrels rolling.
Tumbril
Definition:
(n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
(n.) A rough cart.
(n.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
(n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) His conference activists see their councillors executed by the tumbril-load.
(2) October 1917 had been relegated to a past that would never be repeated, just like the tumbrils in Paris in 1793 or Charles I’s public execution outside the palace at Westminster.