incumbrance

In all new grounds it is such an incumbrance, that they are forced to burn great heaps of it to rid the land.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

The construction of those I have the honor of presenting to you is designed to obviate the difficulty by leaving the whole passage of the river clear of the incumbrance of piers...

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

Three cars back from the tender the coupling-pin was drawn out, as the load of passenger-cars would only have been an incumbrance.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

We have added eighty acres to our land, making one thousand six hundred and thirty-three acres free of incumbrance.

From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

I was even concocting some bold plan of getting rid of this incumbrance, when I felt Sebastian convulsively clutch my arm.

From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse