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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ham′ble (hăm′b'l), transitive verb

Origin: OE. hamelen to mutilate, AS. hamelian; akin to OHG. hamalōn to mutilate, hamal mutilated, ham mutilated, Icel. hamla to mutilate. Cf. Hamper to fetter.

To hamstring. obsolete

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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