Middle English Dictionary Entry
tumbrel n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | tumbrel n.(1) Also tumberel, tumrel(le, tumerel, tomberel, tomrel, tomerel & (?errors) thumbrell, timirell. |
| Etymology | OF tomberel, tumberel, AF tumbrel & OF tumerel; also cp. ML tumb(e)rellum, tomb(e)rellum, AL tumerellum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An instrument of punishment, perh. a pillory or cucking stool; ?also, the right to erect and employ such an instrument [quot. 1394]; (b) a wheeled cart designed to tip backward to empty its load, a dung cart; (c) a device for raising a well bucket from the well; (d) ?a small boat [transl. of L cymbula]; ?a cymbal [transl. of AL cimbala, cimbela, vars. of L cymballum].
Associated quotations
a
- (1352) in Madox Firma Burgi (1726)262 : Dicta Pistores & Braciatores..in tertia transgressione solebant puniri per poenam corporalem, videlicet per Tumbrell & Pilloriam.
- (1357) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.4.233 : [The prince..has granted and leased..to Henry..to wit..3 acres of meadow in] Hoggesmore [near the] thumbrell.
- (1394) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.24 : [They have had]..blodwyt, [gallows], tumbrel, pylory.
- (1431) *Acc.R.Abbotsbury : [4 women to be put in] tumberell vocat collistris.
b
- (1383) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.128 : [A cart, a] tomrell [and a] plow [with all its gear worth 30 s.].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)496 : Tomerel, donge cart.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)506 : Tumrel [Win: Tumerel], donge carte: Fimaria, titubatorium.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)618/17 : Tutibarum, vel Tutibarium: a tumbrell.
- (1468) in Salzman Building in Engl.352 : [A] tumbrell [or..a] curta biga [called shortcart].
- (1483) Acc.Howard in RC 61173 : Here foloweth the Laborers with tomberels that are unpaid: Item, Gante, v dayes with a tomberel: he hath rec. of it iij s.
c
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)131a : A Timirell [Monson: Tumrelle] of A wele: Appodencium, Ciconium, Ciconia, Tollinum.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)799/36 : Tolumen: a tumrelle.
d
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)266 : Cimba: the botme of a pot [read: bot]; Cimbela: a tumberel; Cimbalum: instrumentum musicum, a cymbal.
- 1468 *Medulla (StJ-C C.22)20b/a : Cimbula: a tomerel [Pep: Cimbala: a Cimball; Hrl 1738: Cimbalum: est instrumentum musicum; Stnh: Cimba: þe botme of a bote..Cumba: þe botme of a ship].