What does "cumber" mean?
Cumber: Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii.
Additional senses
- 2.The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. Locke.
- 3.Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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