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hamstring

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hamstring
1. Anatomy any of the tendons at the back of the knee
2. the large tendon at the back of the hock in the hind leg of a horse, etc.


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"Not a step further," said the man, who appeared to be the captain, "or I will hamstring your horses.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Shall we cry shame on the brutality of those who hamstring cattle: and spare the lights of Freedom upon earth who notch the ears of men and women, cut pleasant posies in the shrinking flesh, learn to write with pens of red-hot iron on the human face, rack their poetic fancies for liveries of mutilation which their slaves shall wear for life and carry to the grave, breaking living limbs as did the soldiery who mocked and slew the Saviour of the world, and set defenceless creatures up for targets
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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