Burthen: alternatives and connections

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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of Load

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To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.

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A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bo…

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A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, a…

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That which is borne or carried; a load.

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The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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