- Look up Burden or
burden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Burden or
burthen may
refer to:
Burden (surname),
people with the
surname Burden Burden,...
-
maximum beam. It is
expressed in "tons burden" (Early
Modern English:
burthen,
Middle English: byrthen), and
abbreviated "tons bm". The
formula is: Tonnage...
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Modest Proposal for
Preventing the
Children of Poor
People from
Being a
Burthen to
Their Parents or Country, and for
Making Them
Beneficial to the Publick...
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Sophia Burthen Pooley (c. 1772 – 1860) was a
formerly enslaved African American in New York
before being forcibly brought to the
Canadas by
Mohawk chief...
- 82 ft) long, 5 to 8
meters (16 to 26 ft) wide, and were of 30–200 tons
burthen. Cogs were
rarely as
large as 300 tons
although a few were considerably...
- two
decks high. She was 165 feet (50.29 m) long,
measuring 1,000 tons
burthen and
having a
complement of 700 men. She was
ordered by
Henry VIII, probably...
- completion, she
measured 131 ft on the keel and 42 ft in
breadth (giving her a
burthen tonnage of 1,12916⁄94), but the
breadth was then
increased by 6in to 42 ft...
- 160 tons, 18 guns Serpent, 160 tons
burthen, 18 guns Requin, 260 tons
burthen, 24 guns Indiscret, 260 tons
burthen, 24 guns In the
eighteenth and early...
- no
fewer than 100 guns and more than 850 crew, and had a
measurement (
burthen)
tonnage of some 2,000 tons. The
concept of a
rating system for British...
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technically frigates. ^* The ton in this
instance is the
burthen tonnage (bm). From c.1650 the
burthen of a
vessel was
calculated using the
formula k × b ×...
