Definition of "cumbered"

Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour.

1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Cross Currents”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 94

Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.

1964, “Allah Made Mesopotamia—and Added Flies”, in The Great War