tumbril

1. (historical) A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.historical

2. (historical) A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.Examples: "It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […]"; "Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril."; "If there would be former freemasons on the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror, they would be numbered too in the ranks of the émigré armies and counter-revolutionary Chouan rebels, and in tumbrils bound for the guillotine."historical

3. (UK, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.UKobsolete