Burthen - What does it mean?

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burthen

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.

* 1798 , , lines 36-43:

Nor less, I trust,

To them I may have owed another gift,

Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,

In which the burthen of the mystery,

In which the heavy and the weary weight

Of all this unintelligible world,

Is lightened:

* 1817 , :

It was with a daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burthen of two children.

* , The Husbandsmen , lines 4, 6-7:

Bidding them grope their way out and bestir,

*:(...) though the worst

Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst

Verb

(en verb)

* 1883 , :

The other men were variously burthened ; some carrying picks and shovels - for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola - others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.

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