Bible Dictionaries
Overburden

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.

(2):

(v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Overburden'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/overburden.html. 1828.