lumbered

lumbered (comparative more lumbered, superlative most lumbered)

1. (slang) Trapped, encumbered.
   • 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22:

     ‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’
     ‘No. Neither.’
     ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’

2. (UK, slang, obsolete) In prison.
   • 1859, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (volume 2, page 303)

     But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that canting sneak Banks! Damnation to Richard Markham! I shall swing for this if I don't take precious good care.

lumbered

1. simple past and past participle of lumber

• (in prison): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• “lumbered adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present