Hamper
['hæmpə] or ['hæmpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a basket usually with a cover.
(verb.) prevent the progress or free movement of; 'He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather'; 'the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries'.
Typed by Harley--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. t.) To put in a hamper.
(v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
(n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(n.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
Typist: Nelda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Crate.[2]. Fetter, shackle, clog, chain.
v. a. Shackle, fetter, entangle, clog, encumber, restrain, hinder, impede, clog.
Edited by Carlos
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hinder,[See CONTEMPTIBLE_and_PALTRY]
Edited by Bridget
Definition
n. a large basket for conveying goods.—v.t. to put in a hamper.—ns. Han′ap a large drinking-cup; Han′aper an old name for a receptacle for treasure paper &c. long the name of an office in the Court of Chancery.
v.t. to impede or perplex: to shackle.—n. a chain or fetter.—p.adj. Ham′pered fettered impeded.—adv. Ham′peredly.—n. Ham′peredness.
Edited by Glenn
Examples
- Hamper will speak to my being a good hand. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So I say, hooray for the strike, and let Thornton, and Slickson, and Hamper, and their set look to it! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This strike, which affects me more than any one else in Milton,--more than Hamper,--never comes near my appetite. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Hamper's--that's where I worked--makes their men pledge 'emselves they'll not give a penny to help th' Union or keep turnouts fro' clemming. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But no hamper. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He did not speak to you as Hamper did, did he? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I only wish they'd cotched Boucher, and had him up before Hamper. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The lock's hampered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It's big enough for a prison-door--it's been hampered over and over again, and it ought to be changed for a new one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That it is apt to be hampered by material necessities or complicated by moral scruples? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is a little too hard on me to expect that my course in life is to be hampered by prejudices which I think ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Take care--experto crede--take care not to get hampered about money matters. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For, as we have already stated, humanistic studies when set in opposition to study of nature are hampered. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Finally, the thought of the Greeks was hampered by a want of knowledge that is almost inconceivable to us to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What's in those hampers over them again, I don't quite remember. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And undue absorption at the outset in the physical object of sense hampers this growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For the first time Lydgate was feeling the hampering threadlike pressure of small social conditions, and their frustrating complexity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In addition we have an explicit fear of the hampering influence of a state-conducted and state-regulated education upon the attainment of these ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Sweeney