 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impedimenta
noun
1: any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: {obstruction},
{obstructor}, {obstructer}, {impediment}]
2: the baggage and equipment carried by an army
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impedimenta \Im*ped'i*men"ta\, noun pl. [L. See {Impediment},
{Impede}.]
Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances;
baggage; specif. (Mil.), the supply trains which must
accompany an army.
On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises,
dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with
impedimenta. --Julian
Ralph.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "impedimenta":
accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances,
armament, bag and baggage, baggage, burden, burthen, cargo, charge,
consignment, conveniences, cross, cumbrance, deadweight,
difficulty, disadvantage, duffel, dunnage, embarrassment,
encumbrance, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings,
fixtures, freight, freightage, furnishings, furniture, gear, goods,
hamper, handicap, impediment, imposition, inconvenience,
installations, kit, lading, load, luggage, lumber, machinery,
materiel, munition, munitions, onus, outfit, pack, paraphernalia,
payload, penalty, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, shipment,
stock-in-trade, tackle, things, traps, trouble, utensils, weight,
white elephant
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