The word cumber here means to render barren or sterile. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Such trifles at best come under the head of what old Warner would have called cumber-minds. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
He made this plea, not with an armoury of Greek learning, such as cumber Virgil and Horace, but with an original passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Whereupon the hawker took a "cumber" from his barrow, bit off the end, and chewed it till the sap squirted. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
Streets and courts full of houses cumber the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Kind of like you, cool under pressure, cool as a cumber. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 1, 2009] Reference
Why should they cumber their strength with his weakness?. From Wordnik.com. [THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL] Reference
NGUYEN: Notice one spot on the course, a cumber on a stand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference
“I say, cumber not yourself about it, father,” answered. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
We could not afford to cumber ourselves with unnecessary weight. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
CHETRY: And Larry was cool as a cumber as well in there, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2007] Reference
MEADE: I wasn't worried about him, because he's just cool as a cumber. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2009] Reference
Burning the felled trees that cumber the ground is the next undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Instead of the stand for the cumber, I would like you to hold it yourself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference
"It is a cumber-ground," saith the Father; "One year longer," prays the Son. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
MOOS: She was waving fake bloody hands at a cool as a cumber Condoleezza Rice. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2009] Reference
Such remembrance as this, which keeps the heart green, will not cumber the life. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
It wasn't a hunting theme but the groom and groomsmen did were camo cumber buns. From Wordnik.com. [Camo Weddings] Reference
Why should I cumber myself with the poor fact that the receiver is not capacious?. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
Oh for watchfulness unto prayer continually, and that the cumber of earth may be cast away!. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference
But these, neither artificial rules, nor imitative patterns, we much cumber ourselves withal. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
See Cumberland's website, www. cumber.com, for the tracking of the Fed's balance sheet changes. From Wordnik.com. [David Kotok: About Paulson's Statement] Reference
On Friday morning see www. cumber.com for the graphic depiction of the Fed's new balance sheet. From Wordnik.com. [David Kotok: Throwing in the Towel] Reference
Hand and heart will tremble, at this domestick fury, and firce civil Strife, which cumber all our parts. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 - 10 March 1776] Reference
Many of the words in most books on orthoepy are very rarely mispronounced, and they serve only to cumber the work. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families] Reference
But whether to fall upon them on a market-day, because of their cumber in business, that I would should be under debate. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
"Yes, sirs, it is true, all that you say; but they are rebels, they talk too much; why suffer them to cumber Union ground?". From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
Many of these cases linked to one particular dish -- salad cumber and tomato salad on hummus served at a Persian restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007] Reference
“I will cumber your Grace no longer with my presence,” said the Lady Lochleven, “unless you have aught to command me.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well. From Wordnik.com. [The Transcendentalist] Reference
The worst of my ill deeds have been to flatter his vices; and he grudged me a word of his mouth, when a word would have allayed this cumber!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
In this painting, t looks like the vest or cumber band they wore as a bodice outside the peasant blouse, was of tapestry or a colorful print. From Wordnik.com. [The Colorful Garments Painted by Eugene de Blaas (1815-1894)] Reference
Who cares to cumber his bookshelves with the volumes in which this inflated arm-chair prophet of the tin pots delivered his shrieking message?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892] Reference
'But in the meantime they cumber us; we have to fight.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
Now please if I might over cumber you with a question …. From Wordnik.com. [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference
Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
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