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Hamstring  v. t.  (past & past part. hamstrung; pres. part. hamstringing)  To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. "So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hamstring" Quotes from Famous Books



... player,—whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 27 SHAKS.: Troil. and Cress., Act i., ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various

... from eating the meat of a turkey, because the fleshy dewlap which depends from its throat somewhat resembles an inflamed scrofulous eruption. On killing a deer the hunter always makes an incision in the hind quarter and removes the hamstring, because this tendon, when severed, draws up into the flesh; ergo, any one who should unfortunately partake of the hamstring would find his limbs draw up in the ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various



Words linked to "Hamstring" :   bedevil, lame, rag, hamstring tendon, crucify



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