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cumbrance

[ kuhm-bruhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

cumbrance

/ ˈkʌmbrəns /

1275–1325; Middle English combraunce, aphetic variant of acombraunce defeat, harassment; encumbrance

So I parted with my public and my ferrets—for she was dead a' ready, my wife was, and I hadn't no cumbrance.

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.

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