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Hamper   /hˈæmpər/   Listen
noun
Hamper  n.  A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.


Hamper  n.  
1.
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
2.
(Naut.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.


verb
Hamper  v. t.  (past & past part. hampered; pres. part. hampering)  To put in a hamper.


Hamper  v. t.  To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; to entangle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber. "Hampered nerves." "A lion hampered in a net." "They hamper and entangle our souls."





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"Hamper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lords of Looseness That hamper faith and works, The Perseverance-Doubters, And Present-Comfort shirks, With brittle intellectuals Who crack beneath a strain— John Bunyan met that helpful set In ...
— The Years Between • Rudyard Kipling
... Christmastide, I receive a simple foreign hamper via Charing Cross, marked "Return empty." I take it in silence to my own room, and there, opening it, I find—unseen by any other eyes but my own—a modest pate de foie gras, of the kind I ate with the Princess Flirtia. I take out the pate, replace ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte
... hamper both Dryden and Pope; and the nearest parallel to the manner of Virgil is to be sought in Milton. The famous ...
— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
... I will send her a hamper from Castleford. I can manage that much. This is rather a nice little place," continued Mrs. Ormonde, evidently much relieved and looking round. "What lots of pretty things! Is Mrs. Needham nice? She seemed rather a flashy woman. You must feel it an awful change from being an heiress, and so much ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... Samuel, softened by the contrite look of his old shipmate, and having got rid of the greater portion of his bile by the first explosion, "you will now proceed to unrig yourself of this top hamper as fast as you can; pitch them into the surf if you like; but never, as you respect the warrant in your pocket, let me see you in ...
— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall


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