- Cramp one's style - Food basket - Large basket with a cover - A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing
and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an
oyster hamper, which contains two bushels. - To put in a hamper. - To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to
inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to
encumber. - A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.