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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Hamstring

Hām’string, n.

noun

n. One of the tendons of the ham.

Hām’string, v. t.

verbtransitive

[ĭmp. & p. p. HAMSTRUNG, or HAMSTRINGED; p. pr. & vb. n. HAMSTRINGING.] To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.

So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton.