Crossword clues for hamper
hamper
- Box of fizz unwrapped
- Impede bad actor theatre rejected
- Hold up basket
- Slow down
- Get in the way of
- Laundry repository
- Laundry convenience
- Place for dirty linen
- Where you might throw in the towel
- Slow up — basket
- Place to throw drawers, perhaps
- Load-bearing item?
- Laundry basket
- Large covered basket
- Dirty-laundry holder
- Container for dirty laundry
- It might raise a stink
- Hold back
- Impede, as progress
- Load bearer?
- A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- A basket usually with a cover
- Laundry container
- Restrain
- Laundry holder
- Cured pork for each basket of food
- Cooked meat: something extra cut for picnic basket
- Obstruct basket
- Prevent free movement of covered basket
- Possible sandwich filling for each container of sandwiches, say?
- Picnic basket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hamper \Ham"per\, n. [See Hamper to shackle.]
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
--W. Browne.-
(Naut.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.
Hamper \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.
A lion hampered in a net.
--L'Estrange.
They hamper and entangle our souls.
--Tillotson.
Hamper \Ham"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hampered (-p[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hampering.] To put in a hamper.
Hamper \Ham"per\ (h[a^]m"p[~e]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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., hampren "to surround, imprison, confine," also "to pack in a container," of unknown origin, possibly from hamper (n.1), or somehow connected to Middle English hamelian "to maim." Related: Hampered; hampering.
"large basket," early 14c., contraction of Anglo-French hanaper (Anglo-Latin hanepario), from Old French hanepier "case for holding a large goblet or cup;" in medical use "skull," also "helmet; armored leather cap," from hanap "goblet," from Frankish or some other Germanic source (cognates: Old Saxon hnapp "cup, bowl;" Old High German hnapf, German Napf, Old English hnæpp). The word also meant (15c.) "the department of Chancery into which fees were paid for sealing and enrolling charters, etc." The first -a- may be a French attempt to render Germanic hn- into an acceptable Romanic form.
1835, "things important for a ship but in the way at certain times" (Klein's definition), from French hamper "to impede." Hence top hamper, originally "upper masts, spars, rigging, etc. of a sailing ship."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, n. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, vb. (context transitive English) To put into a hamper. Etymology 2
n. 1 A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. 2 (context nautical English) articles ordinary indispensable, but in the way at certain times. vb. (context transitive English) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
WordNet
n. a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: shackle, bond, trammel, trammels]
a basket usually with a cover
v. prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries" [syn: halter, cramp, strangle]
put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements" [syn: handicap, hinder]
Wikipedia
A hamper refers to a set of related basket-like items. In primarily British usage, it refers to a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food. In North America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle, often a basket, for clean (out of the dryer or off the line) or dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper". Typically a laundry hamper is used for storage and will be sturdier, taller and have a lid while a laundry basket is open and used mainly for transport.
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.
The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.
At one time it was common for laundry services to leave a large basketwork container with a lid which is now commonly referred to as a clothes hamper. The same type of container would be used to return clean clothing, which would be put away by the laundry service and the empty container left in place of the full container for later pickup.
This type of daily or bi-daily hamper service was most common with Chinese laundry services in 19th-century England and America.
Usage examples of "hamper".
Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.
His fingers were somewhat hampered by the bars, but Alec got Tell Micum silver fish.
But, in this respect, the Hallichek Ambassadress and her Embassy staff were sorely hampered.
Monsieur Mangin held on his lap his few special provisions for the journey: a hamper of sandwiches and wine, a pocket compass and a small aneroid barometer.
His arms were full of harpoons, hampered, while Debby and Carlot and Booce had no weapons at all.
The fallen slowed them, but they counterattacked with grim ferocity, beasts clambering over the dead and dying to reach the ambushers, tearing at their own in their bloodlust when the wounded hampered them.
They felt themselves authorized by social necessity to pursue their own interests energetically and unscrupulously, and they were not either hampered or helped in so doing by the interference of the local or the national authorities.
He loved Kamila too much for her to be hampered by the presence of a child.
Air conditioners were failing, dogs had diarrhea, laundry mildewed in hampers, and sinus cavities felt filled with cement.
It was well understood by everyone that the agreed occupational zones must not hamper the operational movements of the armies.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.
Impatient hands pushed the sleeveless dress off her shoulders and Pilar lowered her arms to let it slide to the floor, glad to be rid of the hampering garment.
The moon was now sufficiently high to cast its soft light on the whole of the glittering basin, and a forest composed of lateen yards, of the slender masts of polaccas, and of the more massive and heavy hamper of regularly rigged ships, was to be seen rising above the tranquil element.
Order of Saint Michael of Pumpernickel were sent to the nobles of the Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St.
There was no lesson with Miss Rigg, but I had quite a lot of washing in the hamper, and I had promised myself that I would turn out the attic room this week because I had missed that earlier in the year when I was spring-cleaning.