Obs. [CUMBER v. 8.] A person or thing that uselessly encumbers the world.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 279. I combre world, that may of no thynge serue.

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a. 1420.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 2091. That combreworlde that my maister slow.

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1593.  Drayton, Eclogues, ii. 25. A cumber-World, yet in the World am left.

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