hamble
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Hamble¹
Rhymes with -æmbəl
proper noun
- A river in Hampshire, England.
- Ellipsis of Hamble-le-Rice: a village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England.
hamble²
- /ˈhæm.bəl/
Rhymes with -æmbəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English hamlen, hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hamalōn, from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether, castrated ram”).
verb hambles · hambling · hambled · hammel · hamel
- To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
- To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
- To walk lame; limp.
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