1burdening, weighing down:
(
s.xiv1/3?;
MS: c.1330
)
Pur veintre l’encombrus pecché de Tristesce ke honist corps e alme covient grant force a deboter le taunt cum vous poez
7
♦
clogged up, over-used:
(
1139-50;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Li quarz
(=main road in England) si est mult encumbrus; Cest chemin est Fosse apelez, Si vait par multes citez
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