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Definition of Hamper

1. Verb. Prevent the progress or free movement of. "The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

2. Noun. A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).

3. Verb. Put at a disadvantage. "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"

4. Noun. A basket usually with a cover.

Definition of Hamper

1. 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.

2. v. t. To put in a hamper.

3. 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.

4. n. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

Definition of Hamper

1. Noun. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To put into a hamper. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber. ¹

4. Noun. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. ¹

5. Noun. (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hamper

1. to hinder [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hinder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamper

hamminess hamminesses hamming hamming up hammochrysos hammock hammock bandage hammock ligament hammocked hammocking

hammocklike hammocks hammy hamose hamous hamper (current term) hampered hamperer hamperers hampering

hampers hampster hampsters hampton hump hams hams up hamsa hamsandwich hamsas hamshackle

Literary usage of Hamper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"His father, Thomas hamper, married Elizabeth Tyson, and settled in ... hamper was wi-11 1 in Anglo-Saxon, was-thoroughly conversant with medioeval latinity, ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"Before the arrival of that hamper, Master Briggs was in no better repute than any other young gentleman of the lower school; and in fact I had occasion ..."

3. History of the Western Reserve by Harriet Taylor Upton, Harry Gardner Cutler (1910)
"Robert Harper was the eighth and last-bonn to Captain hamper and his wife, ... Colonel Robert hamper (colonel in the war of 1812) built the old ..."

4. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1827)
"Communicated by WILLIAM hamper, Esq. FSA in a Letter to HENRY ELLIS, Esq. FRS Secretary. Read llth December, 1823. Deritend House, Birmingham, Dec. 5, 1823. ..."

5. Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, with Some by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1898)
"It will be upon the upper works, superstructures, military masts, funnels, ventilators, chart-houses, bridges, and stacks of boats and top-hamper, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1843)
"The plaintiffs refused to pay for each parcel separately, or pay one penny per pound upon the gross weight of the hamper and its contents, ..."

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