Hamper vs Impediment - What's the difference?
hamper | impediment |
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
* a hamper of wine
* a clothes hamper
* an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels
To put into a hamper.
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
* Blackmore:
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A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=2
(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
As nouns the difference between hamper and impediment
is that hamper is a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, or hamper can be a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.As a verb hamper
is to put into a hamper or hamper can be to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.hamper
English
(wikipedia hamper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts
Etymology 2
From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Hampered nerves.
- A lion hampered in a net.
- They hamper and entangle our souls.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Top hamper , (Nautical): unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
citation, passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .
