1 gen 1662 anni - cumber

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To occupy obstructively (OED), found in an amusing early by-name. 1333 <i>Henry Comberkichyn</i>, Rastrick (WCR3/189). In a later example, when a wood was being surveyed, the noun may have meant ‘encumbrance’, the trees being an obstruction: 1662 <i>this was not measured for cumbere of the wood but by estimacon contay</i>[neth]<i> 50tie acres</i>, Bilsdale (NYRO23/72). To encumber in the sense of to hamper or be a trouble was used by Chaucer in <i>c</i>.1386 but examples before 1600 are rare: 1542 <i>Providede alway that Agnes my wif shall not be ... incombred to pay the saide some of thre pounde sexe shillings and eight pence</i>, Halifax (Clay152).

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