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Definition of Cumber

1. Verb. Hold back.

Definition of Cumber

1. v. t. To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

2. n. Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

Definition of Cumber

1. Verb. (transitive dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cumber

1. to hinder [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hinder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumber

Literary usage of Cumber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"beeing a very fat person ; — for which fact Mrs cumber saw her burnt ... which was since confirmed to me by Mrs cumber, who hath lived there, ..."

2. Datum Posts of Jurisprudence by William Taylor Hughes (1907)
"For accord and satisfaction of this he gave cumber his note for £5, ... Afterwards cumber sued Wane for the unpaid £10 and recovered upon the rule that all ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand In the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! ... Same as cumber. Who-so wole haue heilen to his hire, Kepe he him from the ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1892)
"cumber v. Schoenfeld. JEREMIAH cumber, Respondent, against Louis N. ... amendment was so regarded by counsel and by the court; and, in the charge, cumber ..."

5. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"He was still under the delusion that it was possible to August, establish an orderly constitutional and Presbyterian cumber"1 °f g°vernment) with Charles at ..."

6. Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford by William Henry Turner (1880)
"John cumber dismissed the Council house. ... of the same Citie that John cumber shall remayne out of thes house upon an offence by hym don ..."

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