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.
To put in a hamper.
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. Eileen Caddy
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. Denzel Washington
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? Katharine Whitehorn
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
hamper in German is hindern, Geschenkkorb
hamper in Italian is impedire
hamper in Norwegian is hemme, stor kurv, hindre
hamper in Spanish is enredarse, complicarse, impedir
hamper in Swedish is hindra, korg
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