A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
A step-like recession in a wall.
The required distance between a structure and a road.