Meaning of overburthen | Babel Free

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Archaic form of overburden.

alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“The over burthen of these expenses falls upon the sale of the commodity, and lessens the consumption.”

“1832, John W. Colenso, "A Description of Happy-Union Tin Stream-work at Pentuan" in Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, T. Vigurs, Vol. 4, p. 38 https://books.google.ca/books?id=TjK_HG0RIdoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The overburthen contains no sea-sand, but is composed of silt and river gravel […] .”

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