Capable of carrying a cargo. Obs.
1763. A very good and burthensome Schooner for sale.—Boston Evening Post, May 9.
1766. Wanted to purchase, a burthensome Sloop of about 55 Tons.—Id., Feb. 17.
1772. Wanted a good burthensome double-deck’d vessel about 150 or 160 Tons.—Boston-Gazette, Jan. 27.
1834. The burthensome steamboats from New-Orleans reach here [St. Louis] at the lowest stage of the river.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ ii. 74 (Lond., 1835).
