Cumber
- Kel Richards •
- 1 June 2005
‘Cumber’ is a rather quaint, old-fashioned word that we don't hear much any more. We still talk occasionally about something being an ‘encumbrance’, but ‘cumber’ (the shorter verb from which this noun is constructed) has largely disappeared.It came into English from Old French around the year 1300, and it had
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