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HANAPER , properly a See also:case or See also:basket to contain a "hanap " (O. Eng. kneels: cf. Dutch See also:nap), a drinking See also:vessel, a See also:goblet with a See also:foot or See also:stem; the See also:term which is still used by antiquaries for See also:medieval stemmed cups. The famous Royal See also:Gold See also:Cup in the See also:British Museum is called a " hanap " in the See also:inventory of See also:Charles VI. of See also:France. The word "hanaper " (Med. See also:Lat. hanaperium) was used particularly in the See also:English See also:chancery of a wicker basket in which were kept writs and other documents, and hence it became the name of a See also:department of the chancery, now abolished, under an officer known as the clerk or See also:warden of the hanaper, into which were paid fees and other moneys for the sealing of charters, See also:patents, writs, &c., and from which issued certain writs under the See also:great See also:seal (S. R. Scargill-See also:Bird, See also:Guide to the Public Records (1908). In See also:Ireland it still survives in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the clerk of the See also:crown and hanaper, from which are issued writs for the return of members of See also:parliament for Ireland.
From " hanaper " is derived the See also:modern " hamper," a wicker or See also:rush basket used for the See also:carriage of See also:game, See also:fish, See also:wine, &c. The verb " to hamper," to entangle, obstruct, hinder, especially used of disturbing the mechanism of a See also:lock or other fastening so as to prevent its proper working, is of doubtful origin. It is probably connected with a See also:root seen in the Icel. hemja, to restrain, and Ger. hemmen, to clog.
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