cumber
verb (used with object)
to hinder; hamper.
cumberer
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a word derived from
cumber.
Example Sentences
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Make what rule you please, only keep it, or you will never be more than a cumberer of the ground.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
To-morrow you'll be a nameless cumberer of busy streets, useful only to the street-car companies to shake down for nickels.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
I cannot forbear wondering that I have been spared so long,—that I have not been cut down as a cumberer of the ground.
From Canadian Wild Flowers by Helen M. (Helen Mar) Johnson
"No, Audrey, I'm an utterly useless person—a cumberer of the ground."
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
Thus he was to be all his life long this big cumberer of the ground.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
