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Definition of Hamstringing
1. hamstring [v] - See also: hamstring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamstringing
Literary usage of Hamstringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811 by Louis Simond (1817)
"... of hamstringing men and animals,—and lother ingenious invention, that of
burying obnoxious persons alive in a hole full of furze, with their heads only ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"I refer to " hamstringing" the patient just prior to any thigh amputation. ...
The reason for advocating the hamstringing is simple, but involves a brief ..."
3. The Boy's Yearly Book by John Tillotson (1867)
"hamstringing THE BUFFALO. It is a singular fact in the formation of the ...
The "Ta-wa-ki-na" acknowledged hamstringing buffalo was as contemptible as it ..."
4. The Hive of "The Bee-hunter": A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1854)
"The " Ta-wa-ki-na " acknowledged that hamstringing buffalo was as contemptible,
as it was thought to be by the Comanche chief. Thus ended this novel and ..."
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