cumbrance

English

Etymology

From cumber +‎ -ance.

Noun

cumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural cumbrances)

1. (obsolete) encumbrance
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 52, lines 453–454:

     Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools,
     The wiſe mans cumbrance if not ſnare,

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cumbrance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)