a. Obs. [f. BURDEN sb. + -ABLE.] a. Capable of bearing a burden; b. burdensome, chargeable, causing expense.
1632. W. Lithgow, Totall Disc., 362. Without Ordonance, munition, and a burdenable ship.
1663. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1792), I. 291 (Jam.). They were but silly poor naked bodies, burdenable to the country and not fit for soldiers.
