A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.

In North America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for clean (out of the dryer or off the line) or dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".

In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.

The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.

At one time it was common for laundry services to leave a large basketwork container with a lid which is now commonly referred to as a clothes hamper. The same type of container would be used to return clean clothing, which would be put away by the laundry service and the empty container left in place of the full container for later pickup.

This type of daily or bi-daily hamper service was most common with Chinese laundry services in 19th century England and America.

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• 1 Charitable hamper
• 2 Commercial hampers
• 3 See also
• 4 Notes

Noun

laundry (plural laundries)

1. A laundering; a washing.
2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

   You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.

• dirty laundry
• laundry basket
• laundry chute
• laundryless

• laundry list
• laundry mark
• laundryman
• laundrymat

• laundrywoman

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• Ironing (7)

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  Offers rolling clothes racks, bags and covers. Includes assembly instructions.
• Pucketa Creek Trading Company LLC
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  Offers pure, all natural laundry soapnuts with no toxic laundry detergent petrochemicals.
• Mrs. Stewart's Bluing
  mrsstewart.com
  Sells a multi-use, environmentally safe fabric whitener.