† aˈccumbrance Obs.
Also 5 acombraunce, 6 acc-.
[for earlier encombraunce, a. OFr. encombrance, f. encombre-r: see accumber and -nce.]
The act of encumbering, impeding, overwhelming; molestation, injury.
| 1489 Caxton Faytes of Armes i. xvii. 49 Which thyng is grete acombraunce and full of parel. a 1521 Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1858) III. 67 To noye and do accombraunce to them. |