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Meanings of cumber in English

Hold back.

        Usage of cumber in English
        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
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