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What is a top-hamper?

What is a top-hamper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.
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In the rifts of the smoke-screen could be discerned the tripod masts, enormous top-hamper and up-trained guns of the monitors.
Above it the top-hamper of the brig loomed indistinct and high.
I'mprobably biased, but gents aren't hampered by lady-like top-hamper and your actual child-bearing hips.
All her top-hamper had been taken down by Spike, and nothing remained but the plainest and most readily-managed gear.
There was scarcely sea enough to tremble the top-hamper of the unsuspecting man-of-war.
Well, you won't make land or anything else in a thousand years once you get all your top-hamper piled down on deck.

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