FN: to fracture something (usually a bone), resulting in physical painJosef Jakobs landed in a potato field in North Stifford , Essex , falling heavily and breaking his ankle . Amelie fell and broke her hip just two days before they were due to sail on the liner for France . When she got over the stroke she fell and broke her hand . On the other hand , if I did slip and break my hip I should no doubt be dead by the morning . About this time Mrs Foskett slipped on the floor and broke her hip , dying shortly afterwards . The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . " Clary tripped over a cable during filming and broke his foot . At every step they fall back , foxed and flummoxed by the snow , tripping over buried buckets , breaking their shins on hidden cobbles . David Riley had safely negotiated the slide and a climbing frame when he tripped on scattered pieces of safety surfacing , breaking a bone in his lower right arm . A Sherpa also broke his ankle . Hunt , who broke an ankle at the start of this season , said : ` This is a good opportunity for me to show what I can do after a bit of a difficult time . " A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . I was going to be a pro racer and was doing real good until , at thirteen , I was goofing around and broke my arm . " Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . Trevor Miles broke his left arm in three places when he was pushed into a wall by some boys at school . The most unusual item offered in the auction is the special lightweight wrist-brace which Jackie wore after he broke a bone in his wrist in an F2 race at Jarama . Eldon Brown 's 40-year-old victim broke her pelvis , ankle and four bones in her back , after jumping from a fourth floor window to escape him . He broke both bones in his right forearm and will be in plaster for eight weeks . A client who has severe arthritis broke her hip . He broke his hip whilst hunting and the poor man walked with a limp from then on . ` My father even used to play , until he broke his hip earlier this year . " And last month an 18-year-old student at Lady Margaret Hall college broke a leg and injured her spine when she fell out of a window after a pub crawl . JONJO O'Neill 's stable star Danny Connors had to be put down after breaking a leg at Kelso yesterday . Graham turned to sailing after breaking a leg climbing . He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . " There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height . She broke her neck in a car accident 5 years ago . Fourth Division leaders Southend may face Scarborough without Bennett , who broke his nose in a two-goal display against Tottenham . Collins replaces London 's Michael Watson , who broke his nose while sparring . He broke his nose early on in his spell here and was loath to get stuck in . Their trial was slated for 23 November but it was postponed until 10 January 1949 because Geisler broke three ribs in a car crash and was unfit to appear . Apart from a 10% collapsed lung , Lester broke two ribs and his left collarbone . World Champion Jan Kellner broke his rib during the squirt competition the day before . In other incidents a man had the tops of his fingers sliced off , another broke a wrist and a third suffered a heart attack . I saw Macca interviewed on Grandstand and when asked about it , he said with a smile that he broke his wrist in a ` freak accident " , but would n't say anything more . Ian , 27 , broke his wrist when his Honda CBR 600 spat him off over the high-side during a race . In the return match in 1902 , Fitzsimmons was beaten in eight rounds after breaking his right hand trying to knock Jeffries out . He affected a limp because one leg was ` full of shrapnel " ( he broke it falling downstairs during a party ) . One day I darted out of his way and he broke his hand on the settee . A COMPANY has been fined more than £2,000 after two of its workers broke their hands on unprotected lathe machines . West Indies captain Richie Richardson , who will play for Northern League club Blackpool in the coming season , broke a finger during Leeward Islands ' Red Stripe Cup match against Windward Islands .