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hamel

hamel is the alternative form of hamble.

Meaning of hamble

Verb

hamble (third-person singular simple present hambles, present participle hambling, simple past and past participle hambled)

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

See all 4 meanings of hamble

Proper noun capitalized: Hamel

Hamel (countable and uncountable, plural Hamels)

  1. A surname from French [in turn from Old French].
  2. A commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
  3. A village in Madison County, Illinois, United States.
  4. A neighbourhood of Medina, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.
  5. A small town in the Shire of Waroona, Western Australia.

Forms of hamel

Verb
third-person singular presenthamels
present participle UShameling
present participle UKhamelling
past participle UShameled
past UShameled
past participle UKhamelled
past UKhamelled
Proper noun
pluralHamels

Words formed from hamel

Questions about hamel

What does hamel mean?
Hamel means a surname from French [in turn from Old French].
What is hamel the alternative form of?
Hamel is the alternative form of hamble.
What part of speech is hamel?
Hamel is a proper noun.

Words near hamel in the dictionary

  1. Hamedan
  2. Hameds
  3. Hamedān
  4. Hameed
  5. Hameeds
  6. hamel
  7. hameless
  8. hamelia
  9. hamelias
  10. Hamelin
  11. Hamelins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hamel (page history and authors); Hamel (page history and authors); hamble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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