English Dictionary

burthen

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɝðn̩/

名詞

歴史的 廃用 古語 活用形

(obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds. / Archaic form of burden.

日本語の意味

（旧式）船の積載量、船が酒樽（ワイン）の数に基づいて運搬できる貨物量 / （古語）荷物、負担

The merchant logged the vessel's burthen at three hundred tuns of wine, the traditional measure of its cargo capacity.

商人はその船の積載量（ワインの樽（tun）換算）を300と記録した。これは貨物積載量を測る伝統的な方法だった。

意味（1）

(obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.

… and thence to Calstock, a town on the Tamar, which is washed by the sea flowing through Plymouth Sound and Hamoaze, and which place vessels of 200 tons burthen can reach at spring tides—….

意味（2）

Archaic form of burden.

Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:

burthens （ plural ）