lumbered

adj — 2 senses

lumbered

adj
1

Slang Trapped, encumbered.

  • ‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’ ‘No. Neither.’ ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22:
2

UK, Obsolete, Slang In prison.

  • But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that canting sneak Banks! Damnation to Richard Markham! I shall swing for this if I don't take precious good care.1859, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 303:

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