English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamble

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river in Hampshire, England.
  2. Ellipsis of Hamble-le-Rice: a village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England.
verb
  1. To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
  2. To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
  3. To walk lame; limp.

Word forms

Hamble hambles hambling hambled hammel hamel hammle

Etymology

From Middle English hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether”).

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