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the humble farm cart that moonlighted as France's express service to the guillotine
means A two-wheeled cart, especially a farm tipcart that dumped its load by tilting backward, now remembered chiefly as the vehicle that carried condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
from From Old French 'tomberel,' a dung cart or tipcart, built on the verb 'tomber,' to fall or tumble — because the cart tipped to spill its load. English borrowed it for any rough farm wagon long before the Reign of Terror gave it its grim second career, when such carts hauled the doomed through Paris to the scaffold.
- day job
- a two-wheeled cart for hauling dung and hay
- revolution gig
- carried the condemned through Paris to execution
- marie antoinette
- rode one to her death in 1793
- design trick
- tilted to dump its load, bodies or beets alike
- slang afterlife
- now means any vehicle of doomed transport
marie antoinette's tumbril — the cart that carried her to the guillotine in paris, october 16, 1793
robespierre's tumbril — the cart that carried him to execution in paris, july 28, 1794