noun

• (uncommon outside New England) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper.
• (UK) A gift basket.

verb

• (transitive) To put into a hamper.
  "Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts."

verb

• (transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
  "Near-synonym: hobble"

noun

• (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
  "One afternoon there was a mighty queer noise aloft, which set the men running in every direction. It was the main-t'-gallant-mast. Crash! it broke off just above the cap, and held there by the rigging, dashed with every roll from side to side, with all the hamper that belonged to it."