Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - hamstring
Hamstring
hamstring
n. & v. Anat. --n. 1 each of five tendons at the back of the knee in humans. 2 the great tendon at the back of the hock in quadrupeds. --v.tr. (past and past part. hamstrung or hamstringed) 1 cripple by cutting the hamstrings of (a person or animal). 2 prevent the activity or efficiency of (a person or enterprise).
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I. noun Date: 1565 1. either of two groups of tendons at the back of the human knee, any of three muscles at the back of the thigh that function to flex and rotate the leg and extend the thigh, a large tendon above and behind the hock of a quadruped, II. transitive verb (hamstrung; ~ing) Date: 1641 to make ineffective or powerless ; cripple , to cripple by cutting the leg tendons ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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