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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.
- Archaic form of burden.
- rarely used musical tempo, meaning slow and ponderous (e.g. moving under a burden); similar to largo
- a section of music with the tempo mark "burthen"
Verbi
- Archaic form of burden.
Esimerkit
- Nor less, I trust,
- To them I may have owed another gift,
- Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
- In which the burthen of the mystery,
- In which the heavy and the weary weight
- Of all this unintelligible world,
- Is lightened:
- 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.
- Bidding them grope their way out and bestir,
- (...) though the worst
- Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst
- The 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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