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▪ I. ˈcumbering, vbl. n.
[f. cumber v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb cumber; † trouble, distress (obs.); hindrance, encumbrance, embarrassment.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2195 Hyt may þe brynge to more cumbryng. a1340Hampole Psalter ciii. [civ.] 21 Merk kumbryng of hert.
▪ II. ˈcumbering, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That cumbers.
1682Creech tr. Lucretius (1683) 182 They forc't the cumbring Wood to narrow bounds. 1839Mrs. Hemans Poems, Our Daily Paths, And weigh our burdened spirits down with the cumbering dust of the earth. |