1) Basket for official papers
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1) Treasury
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Hanaper, properly a case or basket to contain a `hanap` (O. Eng. kneels: cf. Dutch nap), a drinking vessel, a goblet with a foot or stem; the term which is still used by antiquaries for medieval stemmed cups. The famous Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum is called a `hanap` in the inventory of Charles VI of France of 1391. The word `hanaper...
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• (n.) A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.
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Han'a·per (-ȧ*pẽr)
noun [ Late Latin
hanaperium a large vase, from
hanapus vase, bowl, cup (whence French
hanap ); of German origin; confer Old High German
hnapf , German
napf , akin to Anglo-Saxon
hnæp cup, bowl. Confer
Hamper ,
Na...
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Hanaper was formerly an office in the Court of Chancery, so called because all writs regarding the public were once kept in a hanaper or hamper. The clerk of the hanaper received all fines due to the king for seals of charters, patents, commissions, and writs. The act 5 and 6 Victoria cap. ciii. transferred the duties of the hanaper office to other...
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