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Definition of Cumbering
1. cumber [v] - See also: cumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumbering
Literary usage of Cumbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902 by Winthrop Lippitt Marvin (1902)
"... Brigantine, and Ketch — Crude Gear and cumbering Artillery — Skilful Shipwrights
of the New World SAVE for vague tradition and a few rude engravings, ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The Michigan laws have always made a distinction between "cumbering" and obstructing
a public way and "encroaching" on it The former term has been applied ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Grand Rapids nances "to prevent the cumbering of Edison, El. L. & FG Co., 33 Fed.
... 79, 91, citing text; had always made, between cumbering Allen v. ..."
4. The Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1873)
"Ib. Power to the common council of a city, by the charter, to adopt ordinances "to
prevent the cumbering of streets, sidewalks," &c., in view of the ..."
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