Definition of Burdeners

1. Noun. (plural of burdener) ¹

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Definition of Burdeners

1. burdener [n] - See also: burdener

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burdeners

burbolts
burbots
burbs
burckhardtite
burd
burdalane
burdash
burdashes
burden
burden of persuasion
burden of production
burden of proof
burdened
burdener
burdeners (current term)
burdenest
burdeneth
burdening
burdenless
burdenous
burdens
burdens of proof
burdensome
burdensomely
burdensomeness
burdie
burdies
burdock
burdocks

Literary usage of Burdeners

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in the American Colonies by National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Newton Dennison Mereness, . (1916)
"... I inform[ed] The Creeks of the Same, which was the Reason that they did [not] think it safe for the burdeners To proceed with me But the said goods ..."

2. The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 by Edward McCrady (1899)
"... the east bank of the Savannah to that place, of sufficient width and straightness for the conveyance of peltries and goods on the backs of "burdeners. ..."

3. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"When they had all paid their respects, the two Indian burdeners approached the pavilion and spread the deerskins over the vacant chairs of Grant and Stuart ..."

4. Hiram College and Western Reserve Eclectic Institute: Fifty Years of History ...by Francis Marion Green by Francis Marion Green (1901)
"It has taught that it is ignoble to take more from the world than one gives; that the world-lifters are immeasurably better than the world- burdeners, ..."

5. The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent (1900)
"... in deeds of derring-do, burdeners of ocean's steeds, Strength enough it seems they needed All to slay a single man ; When shall we our hands uplift ? ..."

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