cumberer
- a word derived from cumber.
Example Sentences
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But everybody in this world, who is not a cumberer of the ground, is out at service.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
Granted I was wild and a useless cumberer of civilization; I was only what my environments had made me.
From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.
Even a large piano which has seen its best days does not seem to be altogether a cumberer of the ground where another equally bulky piece of furniture would be unendurable.
From Girls and Women by Paine, Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester}
A debauchee, a cumberer of the earth, useless, selfish, scandalous of life—and Banneker, looking at him with pitiful eyes, paid his unstinted tribute to the calm and high courage of the man.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
As some poet has put it, ‘Useless I linger, a cumberer here.’
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell
