HAMSTRING
\hˈamstɹɪŋ], \hˈamstɹɪŋ], \h_ˈa_m_s_t_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of HAMSTRING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
By Noah Webster.
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To lame (a horse) by cutting the muscles or tendons of the hinder part of the thigh.
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The strong muscles or sinews at the back of the knee.
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Hamstrung.
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Hamstringing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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