Cumber /(k?m"b?r)/

imp. & p. p. Cumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering

1. 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.

1. Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.]

   A place of much distraction and cumber.

   Sage counsel in cumber.