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Overburden   Listen
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Overburden  n.  The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.






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... descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison



Words linked to "Overburden" :   weight down, burden, overload, weight, loading, ground, soil, land, charge, burthen, load



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