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Brewer's: Hanaper
Exchequer. “Hanaper office,” an office where all writs relating to the public were formerly kept in a hamper (in hanaperio). Hanaper is a cover for a hanap.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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