hamper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To prevent the free movement, action, or progress of.
2. n. Nautical Necessary but encumbering equipment on a ship.
3. n. A large basket, usually with a cover.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To impede in motion or progress; render motion or progress difficult to; shackle; entangle; restrain by force.
2. Hence To impede in any way; embarrass; encumber; restrain; perplex.
3. To derange or put out of working order, as a piece of mechanism.
4. To beat.
5. n. A fetter or some instrument that shackles.
6. n. Nautical, things collectively, which, though necessary to the equipment of a ship, are in the way at certain times: as, to stow away the top hamper.
7. n. A kind of basket or wickerwork receptacle, generally of considerable size, chiefly used as a packing-case.
8. n. A two-bushel basket for oysters.
9. n. A measure for fish holding about a bushel.
10. n. Same as hanaper, 4.
11. To put into a hamper: as, to hamper goods.
12. To load with hampers.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as.
2. v. transitive To put into a hamper.
3. v. 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.
4. n. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
5. n. nautical Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles
2. v. To put in a hamper.
3. v. 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.
4. n. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
5. n. (Naut.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
2. v. put at a disadvantage
3. n. a basket usually with a cover
4. v. prevent the progress or free movement of