English

Alternative forms

• cumber-ground
• cumber ground

Noun

cumberground ‎(plural cumbergrounds)

1. (obsolete) Any totally worthless object or person; something that is just in the way.
   • 1927, Henry William Wolff, Co-operation in India, p. 285,

     Give a man money, and he may sit down upon it and spend it, or live upon the interest which it will yield in idleness, a mere cumberground and drone, from whose life the world derives no benefit.

Related terms

• cumbersome
• cumbrous
• encumbrance

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