Meanings
verbdiscumber (third-person singular simple present discumbers, present participle discumbering, simple past and past participle discumbered)
present singular third person discumbers · participle present discumbering · participle past discumbered · past discumbered
- archaictransitiveTo disencumber.
a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest
1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC
Origin
From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.
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