Definition of cumber Cumber

/kʌˈmbɚ/ - [kumber] - cum•ber

We found 6 definitions of cumber from 5 different sources.

What does cumber mean?

Verb
cumber - hold back
		restrain, encumber, constrain
		trammel, limit, throttle, bound, restrict, restrain, confine restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
		bridle respond to the reins, as of horses
		curb keep to the curb; "curb your dogs"
		clog fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"

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cumber (v. t.)
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.
cumber (v.)
Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

cumber
kum′bėr, v.t. to trouble or hinder with something useless: to retard, trouble.—n. encumbrance: cumbering.—adj. Cum′bered, hampered: obstructed.—ns. Cum′berer; Cum′ber-ground, a useless thing, from Luke, xiii. 7.—adj. Cum′berless, unencumbered.—ns. Cum′berment, Cum′brance, encumbrance.—adjs. Cum′bersome, unwieldy: heavy; Cum′brous, hindering: obstructing: heavy.—adv. Cum′brously.—n. Cum′brousness. [O. Fr. combrer, to hinder—Low L. cumbrus, a heap; corr. of L. cumulus, a heap.]