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'cumber

'cumber is the alternative form of cumber.

Meaning of cumber

Noun

cumber (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Trouble, distress.
    • Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XVI
  2. Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.

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Forms of 'cumber

plural'cumbers

Questions about 'cumber

What is 'cumber the alternative form of?
'cumber is the alternative form of cumber.

Words near 'cumber in the dictionary

  1. 'crat
  2. 'crats
  3. 'cue
  4. 'cues
  5. 'cule
  6. 'cumber
  7. 'cumbers
  8. 'cuz
  9. 'cuzzi
  10. 'cuzzis
  11. 'd

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