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  1. To mutilate; hamstring; cut away. Algate a foot is hameled of thy sorwe. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 964. To hammel, or ham-string, to cut the ham, to hough. E. Phillips, 1706.
  2. To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs), so as to render them unfit for hunting.
  3. To walk lame; limp: in this sense usually hammel, hammle. [Provincial English]

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  • My hamble question brother is, do you have to be named Johnny to enter the kingdom of God? and what does Johnny means anyway?
 

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  1. Also dial. hammel, hamel; from Middle English hamelen, mutilate, from Anglo-Saxon hamelian (only once), mutilate (= OFries. homelia (also in verbal noun homelenga, hamelinga, hemelenga, hemilinge, mutilation, as of the beard) = Old High German hamalōn, Middle High German hameln, mutilate, maim, German hammeln, hämmeln, geld (lambs), = Icelandic hamla = Old Danish hamle, mutilate, maim), from hamol (found in only one passage, in def. form as noun, homola, homela, used to designate a person with his head shaved (as a mark of disgrace); cf. OSc. homyll, hommel, modern hummel, hummle, having no horns (of a cow), humlock, a polled cow, also a person whose head has been shaved or hair cut: see further under humble, v. t., which is ult. a doublet of hamble) = Dutch hamel, wether, = Middle Low German hamel, castrated wether, = Old High German hamal, mutilated, cut off (later Old High German hamal, n., a (castrated) wether, Middle High German hamel, a wether, also a precipitous height, a cliff, also a stick (cut off), German hammel, a wether, mutton, later Swedish hammel = Old Danish hammel, a wether). Cf. Old High German ham (hamm-), mutilated, crippled, lame, paralytic, Middle High German humen, German hammen, maim, curtail, and also OFries. hemma, hamma, hinder, obstruct (a limb), Middle High German hamen, hemmen, German hemmen, Danish hemme, Swedish hämma, stop, hinder, check: senses near that of the ult. allied English hamper: see hamper, hem, v.
 

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