premise: Hampton <mask>
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.; but not A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; -- often in the plural.