n. 25B6; noun
he soon found the old equipment a great encumbrance : HINDRANCE, obstruction, obstacle, impediment, constraint, handicap, inconvenience, nuisance, disadvantage, drawback; poetic/literary trammel; archaic cumber.
she knew she was an encumbrance to him : BURDEN, responsibility, obligation, liability, weight, load, stress, strain, pressure, trouble, worry; millstone, albatross, cross to bear.