OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 601

hamper

/ˈhæm.pə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
banasta • banasto • canasta • canasto • canastro • cesto • cuévano
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
a clothes hamper
a hamper of wine
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 602

hamper

/ˈhæm.pə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estorbar • obstaculizar
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
Near-synonym: hobble
Wife. Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine. Now I charge you Gentlemen, see the Kings peace kept. O my h…
dificultar
To impede in motion or progress.
Engend'ring heats, these one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind.
They hamper and entangle our souls.
Phrases