cumber
verb (used with object)
to hinder; hamper.
cumberer
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a word derived from
cumber.
Example Sentences
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"You're a cumberer of the earth and, furthermore, you've got a beastly temper," and she jabbed a pin through her hat and partly into her head.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins
As gardeners they have their very distinct use, and as such deserve every consideration, but if a man will not till the soil, he is a cumberer thereof.
From The Professional Aunt by Mary C.E. Wemyss
Nature doesn't care a continental copper," he went on fiercely, "whether you're a king or a bankrupt cotton-planter, or any other cumberer of the earth.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
I am afraid you have been a cumberer of the ground all this time, Billy.
From From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry by William Haslam
Compared with them, in his eyes she was probably a mere cumberer of the earth; an ornament, intended only to be admired by the leisured classes.
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page
