hamble.
To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hamlen, hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hamalōn, from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether, castrated ram”).
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