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单词 hamble
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hamblev.

Forms: Old English hamelian, (Middle English past participle heomelede), Middle English hameled, hamled, 1600s–1800s hamble, hamel, 1800s hammel.
Etymology: Old English hamelian to mutilate = Old High German hamalôn, Middle High German hameln, Old Norse hamla to maim, mutilate; from an adjective appearing on Old High German as hamal maimed, mutilated, whence modern German hammel a castrated sheep.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. transitive. To mutilate, maim; to cut short, dock; spec. to cut off the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.Erroneously taken in 17th and 18th centuries as = hamstring v.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]
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slaya1000
alithOE
hamblea1050
belimbc1225
dismember1297
lamec1300
maimc1325
shearc1330
unablec1380
emblemishc1384
magglec1425
magc1450
demember1491
disablea1492
manglea1500
menyie?a1513
mayhem1533
mutilatec1570
martyr1592
stump1596
bemaim1605
cripplea1616
martyrize1615
deartuate1623
hamstring1641
becripple1660
limb1674
truncate1727
dislimb1855
a1050 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1036 Sume hi man blende, sume man hamelode.
c1204 Laȝamon Brut 11206 He heomelede þa reuen, nalde he mænne bi-lefuen.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 915 (964) Algate a fot is hameled of þy sorwe.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 300 Hosen in harde weder y-hamled by þe ancle.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ll2v/2 Hameling of dogges, or hambling..is all one with the expeditating of dogges.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Hameled, cut off, abated (obs.).
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hammeling Hambling of Dogs, is the same with Expeditating, or Lawing.]
2. intransitive. To walk lame. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > limp
haltc825
cripplec1220
hip1440
limp1570
linch1570
claudicate1623
hop1700
crimple1754
hilch1786
crutch1828
hamble1828
dot1843
peg-leg1969
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hamel, to walk lame.
1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. Hamlin, Walking lame.

Derivatives

hamble-shanked adj. Obsolete maimed or lame in the leg.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective]
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lamec725
haltc893
cripplec1230
alamedc1275
crippleda1400
left-handeda1425
limb-take1519
limp-legged1523
limpish1570
lamish1592
limping1599
spavined1647
hip-shotten1648
hamble-shanked1661
hop-legged1714
cripply1775
bockety1842
estropiated1917
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 51 A club footed, hamble shanck't..Hircocerous.
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