hamble

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
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.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
2. v. transitive To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
3. v. intransitive To walk lame; limp.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To hamstring.