Impedimenta

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impedimenta \Im*ped`i*men"ta\, n. 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impedimenta
       n 1: any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: {obstruction},
             {obstructor}, {obstructer}, {impediment}]
       2: the baggage and equipment carried by an army

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