Associations to the word «Hamstring»

Wiktionary

HAMSTRING, noun. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
HAMSTRING, noun. (informal) The biceps femoris muscle.
HAMSTRING, verb. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

Dictionary definition

HAMSTRING, noun. One of the tendons at the back of the knee.
HAMSTRING, verb. Make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules".
HAMSTRING, verb. Cripple by cutting the hamstring.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras