The story
- Old French · derived fromtumberel
- English todaytumbril
From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tumbril
Today it means: A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool. Full definition →
Old French tumberel