Cumber
Cumber (k?m"b?r) , transitive verb
[Old English combren, cumbren,Old French combrer to hinder, from Late Latin cumbrus a heap, from Latin cumulus; compare Sanskrit {not transcribed} to increase, grow strong. Compare Cumulate.]
To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight?
Martha was cumbered about much serving.
Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones,... but cumbers the memory.
Cumber (k?m"b?r) , noun
[Compare encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.]
Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obsolete]
A place of much distraction and cumber.
Sage counsel in cumber.