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cumbers

vb. (en-third-person singular of: cumber)

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Cumbers

Cumbers is a family name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Luis Cumbers (born 1988), English footballer
  • Simon Cumbers (1968–2004), Irish journalist murdered in Saudi Arabia
  • Sydney Cumbers (1875–1959), British collector of merchant navy memorabilia

See also

  • Cumbers Reef - Part of the Amiot Islands, named for a British naval officer

Usage examples of "cumbers".

Instead of building a Church House to add another thousand tons to the enormous weight of ecclesiastical bricks and mortar that cumbers the land, would it not be more human to signalise the time by the abolition of these cruel laws, and by the introduction of some system to gradually emancipate the poor from the workhouse, which is now their master?

We must trust in him, that he will not cut down any tree in his garden until it actually cumbers the ground, altogether unfruitful, and taking up room which might be better used.

When she stopped to think about it, it made sense-both Campbells and Cumbers were feuding with the Gregors, and the enemy of their enemy was their friend.

The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.

His younger brother is leading a group of cumbers from Camp 1 to Camp 2 on Kantega, directly above Thyangboche.

Lo, as frogs that Winter cumbers Meet the Spring with stiffen'd yawn, We from our hard night of slumbers Marched into the bloody dawn.