cumbrance

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Ladders fall toward the excessive end of Mr. Ten Eyck’s sliding scale of regulatory cumbrance; on the more helpful end are procedures required to track produce when there is a disease or illness outbreak.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017

Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.

From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a Factious Lecturer,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind

Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

But where, O where,   Under this heap of precedent, this mound Of customs, modes, and maxims, cumbrance rare,       Shall the Myself be found?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean