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n. Any of the tendons at the rear hollow of the human knee.

n. The hamstring muscle.

n. The large tendon in the back of the hock of a quadruped.

v. To cut the hamstring of (an animal or a person) and thereby cripple.

v. To destroy or hinder the efficiency of; frustrate: "These worthwhile books are often hamstrung by unimaginative formats and inaccurate art" ( Don Lessem).

n. 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.

n. The biceps femoris muscle.

v. To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

n. 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.

v. To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

n. In human anatomy, the tendon of a muscle which bounds the ham, or space behind the knee on either side above the middle of the popliteal space.

n. In ordinary language, the great tendon or sinew at the back of the so-called knee or hock of the hind leg of a quadruped.

To cut the hamstrings of, and thus lame or disable.

In whaling, to cut the muscle or tendons of the small of the whale, so as to render the flukes useless and make the animal helpless. It is done with the fluke-spade when a boat is hauled up alongside a running whale.

v. cripple by cutting the hamstring

n. one of the tendons at the back of the knee

v. make ineffective or powerless

"He left the game in the fourth quarter with what he called a hamstring strain."

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