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maximum beam. It is
expressed in "tons burden" (Early
Modern English:
burthen,
Middle English: byrthen), and
abbreviated "tons bm". The
formula is: Tonnage...
- Look up Burden or
burden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Burden or
burthen may
refer to:
Burden (surname),
people with the
surname Burden Burden,...
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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...
- 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...
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vessels (bark and
brigantine type),: 20 such
ships may
reach 400–600 tons
burthen, with an
average of 92
lasts (165.6–184
metric tons). In 1856, John Crawfurd...
- 1611, "He has the
prettiest Loue-songs for Maids ... with such
delicate burthens of ****'s and Fadings.": Act IV,
scene iv). The
first reference in the...
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about 2,000 vegetes, that is
Venetian butt.
Christopher Wake
estimated a
burthen of 1300 tons. The ship of
Conti may have been a
Burmese or
Indonesian jong...
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spring tide 3.5 m (11.5 ft). The
river is
navigable for
vessels of the
burthen of 95
tonnes (i.e., 380
Bombay candies) up to
Bharuch and for
vessels up...
- murdiro),
though the same
sound development can be seen with
burden (from
burthen). The
alternative murther (attested up to the 19th century)
springs directly...
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century were 12 to 18 m (40 to 60 ft) in
length and
measured 40 to 70 tons
burthen. They
carried four to
eight smaller guns on
single decks. Over time, vessels...
