Cumber vs Crumber - What's the difference?
cumber | crumber |
(dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
* Dryden
* John Locke
* 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
(Australian rules football) A player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each others efforts).
A small, usually metal, tool designed to remove crumbs from a tablecloth.
As a verb cumber
is (dated) to slow down, to hinder, to burden.As a noun crumber is
(australian rules football) a player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each others efforts).cumber
English
Alternative forms
* cumbre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
- The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
- the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.
