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Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Disburthen :: Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.

Rider :: Rider (n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed..

Incumbrance :: Incumbrance (n.) A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check..

Beast :: Beast (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden..

Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.

Important :: Important (v. t.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious..

Load :: Load (v.) 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..

Burden :: Burden (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land..

Porterage :: Porterage (n.) Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.

Disburden :: Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.

Clog :: Clog (v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden..

Exonerate :: Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..

Overburden :: Overburden (v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc..

Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment..

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