† ˈcumber-world Obs.
[cumber v. 8.]
A person or thing that uselessly encumbers the world.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 279, I combre world, that may of no thynge serue. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2091 That combreworlde that my maister slow. 1593 Drayton Eclogues ii. 25 A cumber-World, yet in the World am left. |