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Definitions of hamper in various dictionaries:
noun - a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
noun - a basket usually with a cover
verb - prevent the progress or free movement of
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Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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It can store dirty laundry or picnic food (the same word, perhaps not the same article) |
Originally a case to hold medieval goblets called hanaps, it's a covered basket used for laundry |
Finish your "ham":to prevent someone's free movement |
A big basket, or to impede |
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a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) |
prevent the progress or free movement of |
put at a disadvantage |
to prevent someone doing something easily: |
a large, rectangular container with a lid: |
a box containing food and drink, usually given as a present, for example at Christmas |
a container used for carrying dirty clothes and bed sheets and for storing them while they are waiting to be washed |
to make an action intended to achieve something more difficult: |
a large container, often a basket ( container made of strips of wood), with a lid: |
Hamper description |
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A hamper refers to one of several 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 North America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle, often a basket, for clean (out of the dryer or off the line) or dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper". Typically a laundry hamper is used for storage and will be sturdier, taller and have a lid while a laundry basket is open and used mainly for transport. * 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 contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck. * 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. * At one time it wa |