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Hamstring   /hˈæmstrˌɪŋ/   Listen
Hamstring

noun
1.
One of the tendons at the back of the knee.  Synonym: hamstring tendon.
verb
(past & past part. hamstrung; pres. part. hamstringing)
1.
Make ineffective or powerless.
2.
Cripple by cutting the hamstring.



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"Hamstring" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jethro grasped the ax that was his favorite weapon. "Remember," he had whispered to the boys, "the back sinews of the legs are the only useful point to aim at; if they advance, separate, and if they make toward the girls try to get behind them and hamstring them." ...
— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty
... 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


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