Significats de superincumbent weight en anglès

This element is the constantly recurring lifting of the superincumbent weight of the machine.

Under this superincumbent weight I had long struggled to stand.

The foundations of the building are continually giving way, and the lower tiers crumbling under the superincumbent weight.

It bulged slightly downwards, in a flattened arch, as if some superincumbent weight were pressing hard upon it.

The world, like Milton's lion, is still trying to disengage its binder limbs from the superincumbent weight of the Drift.

He lifted it in his beak, and, with a desperate struggle against the superincumbent weight, regained the branch with his prize.

Luckily the little hollow which received the pair was of sand that yielded to the superincumbent weight, half burying them without further injury.

And there amongst them a delicate blossom, half crushed by the superincumbent weight of moss, the fallen leaves of last year, and tiny, lichen-covered twigs.