hamper

Meanings

1. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
2. A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
3. A gift basket.

1. To put into a hamper.

1. To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
2. To impede in motion or progress.

1. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
2. Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

Etymology

From Middle English hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from Anglo-Norman hanaper, Old French hanapier, hanepier (“case for holding a large goblet or cup”), from hanap (“goblet, drinking cup”), from Frankish *hnapp (“cup, bowl, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”). Cognate with Old High German hnapf (“cup, bowl, basin”) (German Napf (“bowl”)), Dutch nap (“cup”), Old English hnæpp (“bowl”). More at nap.