hamstringn.
/ˈhamstrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ/ a. In human anatomy: one of the tendons (four inner and one outer) which form the sides of the ham or space at the back of the knee; they are the tendons of the semimembranosus, semitendinosus, gracilis, sartorius, and biceps muscles of the thigh.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of leg
hough-sinewc1000
hoxc1440
hamstring1565
Achilles tendon1703
fundiform ligament1889
Y ligament1890
mucous ligament1892
tendo calcaneus1900
Achilles1983
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 13 Her hamstrings and her knees were stiffe.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. 462 Wounding their backes, and cutting their hamstrings.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 260 I also drew the integuments gently towards the inner ham-string.
b. In quadrupeds: the great tendon at the back of the ‘knee’ or hough in the hind leg; it is the tendo Achillis, corresponding to that of the heel in humans.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > main sinew > sinew on hock
hough-sinewc1000
hamstring1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 293/1 A Leg of Veal or Mutton hung by the Ham String on a Hook.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hamstringv.
/ˈhamstrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ/ 1. transitive. To cut the hamstrings of, so as to lame or disable; also to cut the muscle or tendons of the small of the whale.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > hamstring
hoxen1387
hox1388
houghc1440
to tie with St. Mary's knot1544
hock1570
hough-sinew1577
string-hough1605
ham1618
enervate1638
hockle1671
hamstring1675
1675 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 33 If they should know this to, they would hamstring me.
1831 W. Youatt Horse i. 4 The Israelites..were commanded to hough or hamstring those [horses] that were taken in war.
1865 Reader 17 June 676 Poor Cyrill Lucar was ham-stringed by order of the Sultan in 1638.
2. transferred and figurative. To disable as if by hamstringing; to cripple, destroy the activity or efficiency of.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]
wemc900
slaya1000
alithOE
hamblea1050
belimbc1225
dismember1297
lamec1300
maimc1325
shearc1330
unablec1380
emblemishc1384
magglec1425
magc1450
demember1491
disablea1492
manglea1500
menyie?a1513
mayhem1533
mutilatec1570
martyr1592
stump1596
bemaim1605
cripplea1616
martyrize1615
deartuate1623
hamstring1641
becripple1660
limb1674
truncate1727
dislimb1855
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 60 So have they hamstrung the valour of the Subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.
a1678 A. Marvell Damon Mower in Misc. Poems (1681) 41 Hamstring'd Frogs can dance no more.
1719 in T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 129 A Reason sufficient, why Oaths ought not to Hamstring the Ambassadors.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. ii. 204 Thought all hamstrung, shrivelled by inveterate rheumatism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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