burthens

Meaning of burthens

noun
  1. A heavy load.
  2. A responsibility, onus.
  3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
  4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
    a ship of a hundred tons burden
  5. The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
  6. The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
  7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
    A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
  8. A birth.
  9. The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.

noun

The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.

Information about burthens

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of burthens is: burthen.
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Hyphenation of burthens

bur-thens

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • burthens is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with burthens

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