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hamble

/ˈhæm.bəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables
ham-ble
IPA
/ˈhæm.bəl/
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A river in Hampshire, England.

name

Ellipsis of Hamble-le-Rice: a village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England.

verb

To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.

Transitive verb

verb

To walk lame; limp.

Intransitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English hamlen, hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hamalōn, from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether, castrated ram”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: hamlen, hamelian, *hamalōn, *hamalōną, *kem-

Usage

Inflected Forms

hambles (present, singular) hambling (participle, present) hambled (participle, past) hambled (past) hammel (alternative) hamel (alternative) hammle (alternative)

Rhymes With

campbell gamble scramble ramble bramble amble unscramble gambol shamble famble cramble

Questions

How do you pronounce hamble?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhæm.bəl/.
What does hamble mean?
A river in Hampshire, England.
Where does hamble come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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