top-hampern.

Etymology: < top n.¹ + hamper n.² 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtop-ˈhamper.

a. Nautical. Weight or encumbrance aloft: originally said of the upper masts, sails, and rigging of a ship; later, also, weight or encumbrance on the deck, as in a steamer, ironclad, etc.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > [noun]

top-hamper1791

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure

castle?a1400

superstructure1835

top-hamper1857

island1937

1791 Jrnl. Barth. James (Navy Rec. Soc.) 207 The ship being very uneasy from the loss of so much top hamper.

1800 Naval Chron. 4 52 The objects of this invention are:..The great reduction in top-hamper, height, and size of masts.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. iv. 99 To disengage this enormous top hamper, was to us an object more to be desired than expected.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 114 To see our noble ship dismantled of all her top-hamper of long tapering masts and yards.

1857 M. F. Maury in D. F. M. Corbin Life M. F. Maury (1888) 135 She was a side-wheel steamer, with not a little top hamper, and therefore an ugly thing to manage in such a situation.

1870 Daily News 16 Sept. One cannot but suspect that the enormous top hamper, consisting of 4 25-ton guns with her immense turrets, had something to do with her heeling over.

b. transferred and figurative. An encumbrance on the top or upper part of anything; something that makes it ‘top-heavy’; the ‘head-piece’.

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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > upper part > top piece or part > encumbering

top-hamper1861

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 269 Though the top-hamper of houses had long been removed, and the piers patched and strengthened at various times, the [London] bridge was becoming every year less and less adapted for accommodating the increasing traffic to and from the City.

1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine viii The returned rover was a trifle snarled in his top-hamper.

1894 G. A. Sala Things I have Seen I. iv. 147 The luggage..was piled..on the roof of the machine; and the whole tophamper was covered with a thick tarpaulin.

1905 W. P. Ker Ess. Mediæval Lit. i. 11 Many of Hakluyt's men..carry more rhetorical top~hamper than Ohthere.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	top-hamper
释义	top-hampern. Etymology: < top n.¹ + hamper n.² 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtop-ˈhamper. a. Nautical. Weight or encumbrance aloft: originally said of the upper masts, sails, and rigging of a ship; later, also, weight or encumbrance on the deck, as in a steamer, ironclad, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > [noun] top-hamper1791 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure castle?a1400 superstructure1835 top-hamper1857 island1937 1791 Jrnl. Barth. James (Navy Rec. Soc.) 207 The ship being very uneasy from the loss of so much top hamper. 1800 Naval Chron. 4 52 The objects of this invention are:..The great reduction in top-hamper, height, and size of masts. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. iv. 99 To disengage this enormous top hamper, was to us an object more to be desired than expected. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 114 To see our noble ship dismantled of all her top-hamper of long tapering masts and yards. 1857 M. F. Maury in D. F. M. Corbin Life M. F. Maury (1888) 135 She was a side-wheel steamer, with not a little top hamper, and therefore an ugly thing to manage in such a situation. 1870 Daily News 16 Sept. One cannot but suspect that the enormous top hamper, consisting of 4 25-ton guns with her immense turrets, had something to do with her heeling over. b. transferred and figurative. An encumbrance on the top or upper part of anything; something that makes it ‘top-heavy’; the ‘head-piece’. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > upper part > top piece or part > encumbering top-hamper1861 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 269 Though the top-hamper of houses had long been removed, and the piers patched and strengthened at various times, the [London] bridge was becoming every year less and less adapted for accommodating the increasing traffic to and from the City. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine viii The returned rover was a trifle snarled in his top-hamper. 1894 G. A. Sala Things I have Seen I. iv. 147 The luggage..was piled..on the roof of the machine; and the whole tophamper was covered with a thick tarpaulin. 1905 W. P. Ker Ess. Mediæval Lit. i. 11 Many of Hakluyt's men..carry more rhetorical top~hamper than Ohthere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1791
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