incumbrance

The increasing weight of the incumbrance but typified the growing heaviness of his heart.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

There is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the society and to the church.

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

It appeared that he had been buying land lately—I think it was a hundred acres—but there was probably an incumbrance to it, somebody else claiming to have bought some grass on it for this year.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

When they are right they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel or labor with without any trouble or incumbrance.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

In all new grounds it is such an incumbrance, that they are forced to burn great heaps of it to rid the land.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley