Word Meanings - HAMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hamstring. (more info) OHG. hamal to mutilate, hamal mutilated, ham mutilated, Icel. hamla

Related words: (words related to HAMBLE)

• MUTILATION
  The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
• HAMAL
  In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.
• HAMSTRING
  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.
• MUTILATOR
  One who mutilates.
• MUTILATE
  Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (more info) 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.
• CHAMAL
  The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.