Definitions from Wiktionary (Burden)

▸ noun:  A heavy load.
▸ noun:  A responsibility, onus.
▸ noun:  A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
▸ noun:  The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
▸ noun:  (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
▸ noun:  (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
▸ noun:  A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) A birth.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
▸ noun:  (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
▸ verb:  (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
▸ noun:  (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
▸ noun:  The drone of a bagpipe.
▸ noun:  Theme, core idea.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A minor city in Cowley County, Kansas, United States.
▸ noun:  A village in Erpeldange commune, Luxembourg (French spelling).
▸ Also see burden



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