Burden

Education should not be a burden on the parents as well as on the children.

Supporting his family was a great burden for him.

Running the store is becoming a burden to him.

That responsibility is a burden to him.

The trainee could hardly bear the burden of the task.

The people groaned under the burden of heavy taxation.

My dish-washing duties are a heavy burden.

I don't want to burden you with my troubles.

The employees share the burden of toil.

The boy was fed up with being treated as a burden.

I know that this was Life,—the track ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared; ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.

There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.

c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.

a ship of a hundred tons burden

"[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes."

A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.

… that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.

to burden a nation with taxes

My burdened heart would break.

This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, […] Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]

For I meane not that other men bee eaſed, and you burthened: […]

He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.

Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.

BURDEN in some musical instruments, the Drone or Bass, and the pipe or string that plays it