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cumber
UK /ˈkʌmbə/ US /ˈkʌmbə/
noun 3verb 1
Definitions
verb
1
To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.
noun
1
Trouble, distress.
Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!
2
Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.
noun
1
Clipping of cucumber.
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