HAMPER
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Ham"per (hăm"p&etilde_;r), n. [Contr. fr. hanaper.] 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.
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Ham"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hampered (-p&etilde_;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hampering.] To put in a hamper.
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Ham"per, v. t. [OE. hamperen, hampren, prob. of the same origin as E. hamble.] 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.” Blackmore.
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A lion hampered in a net.
L'Estrange.
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They hamper and entangle our souls.
Tillotson.
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Ham"per, n. [See Hamper to shackle.] 1. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. W. Browne.
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2. (Naut.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.
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