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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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Above it the top-hamper of the brig loomed indistinct and high.
All the top-hamper even of such beauty as Michel Angelo conceived does not alter this my impression.
All the same, if you cut out this top-hamper the story of The Veiled Woman on its personal side is distinctly a good one.
By lessening her top-hamper and getting new stanchions for her perilous voyage, she performed it without accident.
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.

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