Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
- To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs), so as to render them unfit for hunting.
- To walk lame; limp: in this sense usually hammel, hammle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To hamstring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
mutilate ;hamstring ;cut away. - verb transitive To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
- verb intransitive To
walk lame ;limp .
Etymologies
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From Middle English hamelen, from Old English hamelian ("to hamstring, mutilate"), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōnan, *hamlōnan (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln ("to geld"), Icelandic hamla ("to mutilate, maim"), Dutch hamel ("wether").
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