"burthen" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Old form of burden. Compare similar development in murder.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 647, from the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, October 3, 1834:",
          "text": "[...] and thence to Calstock, a town on the Tamar, which is washed by the sea flowing through Plymouth Sound and Hamoaze, and which place vessels of 200 tons burthen can reach at spring tides—[...].",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds."
      ],
      "id": "en-burthen-en-noun-N6UKYtoA",
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        [
          "tonnage",
          "tonnage"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "number",
          "number"
        ],
        [
          "tun",
          "tun"
        ],
        [
          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
        [
          "carry",
          "carry"
        ],
        [
          "hold",
          "hold"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "word": "burden"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1798, William Wordsworth, Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 36–43:",
          "text": "Nor less, I trust,\nTo them I may have owed another gift,\nOf aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,\nIn which the burthen of the mystery,\nIn which the heavy and the weary weight\nOf all this unintelligible world,\nIs lightened:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:",
          "text": "It was with a daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burthen of two children.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I (Production), page 19:",
          "text": "In some cases the conquering state contented itself with imposing a tribute on the vanquished: who, being, in consideration of that burthen, freed from the expense and trouble of their own military and naval protection, might enjoy under it a considerable share of economical prosperity, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1860, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Husbandsmen, lines 4, 6-7:",
          "text": "Bidding them grope their way out and bestir,\n[…] though the worst\nBurthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of burden."
      ],
      "id": "en-burthen-en-noun-T3XRnMTp",
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          "burden",
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      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝðn̩/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜːðn̩/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ðən"
    }
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}

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  "etymology_text": "Old form of burden. Compare similar development in murder.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "burthens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burthening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burthened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burthened",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "burden"
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        {
          "word": "afterburthen"
        },
        {
          "word": "burthensome"
        },
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        },
        {
          "word": "unburthen"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "he other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels – for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola – others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɜːðn̩/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ðən"
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  "etymology_text": "Old form of burden. Compare similar development in murder.",
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    {
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
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        {
          "ref": "1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 647, from the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, October 3, 1834:",
          "text": "[...] and thence to Calstock, a town on the Tamar, which is washed by the sea flowing through Plymouth Sound and Hamoaze, and which place vessels of 200 tons burthen can reach at spring tides—[...].",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
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        "The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds."
      ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
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          "tonnage",
          "tonnage"
        ],
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          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
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          "number",
          "number"
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        [
          "tun",
          "tun"
        ],
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          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
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          "carry",
          "carry"
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          "hold",
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        "(obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds."
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          "ref": "1798, William Wordsworth, Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 36–43:",
          "text": "Nor less, I trust,\nTo them I may have owed another gift,\nOf aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,\nIn which the burthen of the mystery,\nIn which the heavy and the weary weight\nOf all this unintelligible world,\nIs lightened:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:",
          "text": "It was with a daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burthen of two children.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I (Production), page 19:",
          "text": "In some cases the conquering state contented itself with imposing a tribute on the vanquished: who, being, in consideration of that burthen, freed from the expense and trouble of their own military and naval protection, might enjoy under it a considerable share of economical prosperity, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1860, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Husbandsmen, lines 4, 6-7:",
          "text": "Bidding them grope their way out and bestir,\n[…] though the worst\nBurthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Archaic form of burden."
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɝðn̩/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɜːðn̩/",
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)ðən"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "afterburthen"
    },
    {
      "word": "burthensome"
    },
    {
      "word": "disburthen"
    },
    {
      "word": "unburthen"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Old form of burden. Compare similar development in murder.",
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    {
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      "form": "burthening",
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    {
      "form": "burthened",
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          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "he other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels – for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola – others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.",
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