cumber /ˈkʌmbə/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden. •(informal) Clipping of cucumber. •(no longer used) Trouble, distress.Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber! — 1810 verb1 •(old-fashioned) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight? — 1717 formscumbered · cumbering · cumbers
