noun. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.

noun. A cart which opens at the back to release its load.

noun. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

noun. A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

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

"At the farm sales, it was impossible not to rescue machines with names like the Nicolson swathe-turner and such things as enormous hay rakes originally designed to be drawn by horses, wooden bullock carts, or the kind of miniature tipping trailer known as a tumbril, one of the most useful things any farm could possess."

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