Term Gallery logo

Meanings of cumber in anglès

Hold back.

Usage of cumber in anglès
1
Burning the felled trees that cumber the ground is the next undertaking.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
2
What advantage in Amy's departure if Hortense continued to cumber the ground?
Bertram Cope's Year
3
It is a cumber-ground, saith the Father; one year longer, prays the Son.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
4
So the Fair City is quit of him and his cumber.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
5
At last it is cut down as a cumber-ground and burnt.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
6
Others also there are-allmen who cumber the ground for nothing.
Dead Souls
7
When you shall have served it you will but cumber them.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
8
Slowly, with all its drench and cumber, the hill was surmounted.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02
9
His stylism does not clog his story or cumber his argument.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
10
Then thy vow will be fulfilled, and thou wilt cumber earth no longer.
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
11
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?
Essays — First Series
12
Worse than a cipher, did he then but cumber the earth?
Lucretia — Volume 02
13
Old iron guns still cumber the embrasures and the ground.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
14
Such remembrance as this, which keeps the heart green, will not cumber the life.
Friendship
15
It is not a time to cumber yourself with me.
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
16
We could not afford to cumber ourselves with unnecessary weight.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
About this term
More collocations
Cumber through the time
Cumber across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common