hamper meaning
ENWHamper
- 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 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 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.
- NounPLhampers
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,.
- a hamper of wine
- a clothes hamper
- an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,.
- VerbSGhampersPRhamperingPT, PPhampered
- (transitive) To put into a hamper.
- Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts.
- (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.
- Engend'ring heats, these one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind.
- (transitive) To put into a hamper.
Definition of hamper in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "hamper" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.