hamstring

hamstring has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• v. t.. To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
• n.. one of the tendons at the back of the knee
• v.. cripple by cutting the hamstring
• v.. make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"