HAMPER, HAMPERED, HAMPERING (impede)
ADJECTIVES
1590 — CUMBERED encumbered; hindered, hampered, occupied obstructively
1793 — TAIGLIN delaying, hampering → Sc.
1905 — HAND-BOUND hampered, put to inconvenience → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1000 — MAR to hamper, to hinder, to interfere with, to interrupt or stop a person, event, or thing → obs.
1487 — CUMBER to hamper, to embarrass, to hinder, to get in the way of
1616 — CRIB to confine within a small space or narrow limits; to hamper
1713 — LANGLE to involve, to encumber, to curb, to restrain, to hamper, to frustrate → Sc.
1825 — HABBLE to confuse, to perplex, to nonplus, to embarrass, to impede, to hamper or foil in the performance of anything → Sc.
1890 — HAWM to shackle, to clog, to hamper → Eng. dial.
1905 — MOOR to impede, to hamper → Eng. dial. (Bk.)