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Webster 1913 Edition

(hăm′strĭngˊ)

Noun.

(Anat.)

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Hamstrung

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Hamstringing

. See

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.

Milton.

Noun.

The tendons of the ham.

Verb.

pret. and pp. hamstrung or hamstringed.

To cut the tendons of the ham, and this to lame or disable.