Définitions
1.NounA heavy load.
2.NounA responsibility, onus.
3.NounA cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
4.NounThe capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry."a ship of a hundred tons burden"
5.NounThe tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
6.NounThe proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
7.NounA fixed quantity of certain commodities."A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds."
8.NounA birth."… that bore thee at a burden two fair sons."
9.NounThe total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
10.NounThe distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
11.VerbTo encumber with a literal or figurative burden."to burden a nation with taxes"
12.VerbTo impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
13.NounA phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
14.NounThe drone of a bagpipe.
15.NounTheme, core idea."the burden of the argument"