tumbril

Meanings

1. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
2. A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.
3. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
4. A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

Etymology

From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).