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▪ I. ˈlaming, n. dial. ? Obs.
[? f. lame n.1 + -ing1; or var. lamin.]
(See quots.)
1686Plot Staffordsh. 131 The partings or lamings which the coal has in it self;..all coale-Mines..haveing divers partitions in the body of the coal it self, made by thin substances called partings or lamings. Ibid. 141 The Laming (that lyes between the measures of the coal). 1847Halliwell, Lamings, the partings of coal. Staff.
▪ II. laming, vbl. n.|ˈleɪmɪŋ|
[f. lame v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb lame; rendering lame, halting, or defective.
1583Babington Commandm. vi. (1637) 49 Hurting and laming of our brethren in fight. 1599Life More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 118 To the laming and blemishing of a most notable sentence. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxi. (1862) 311 The laming of their horses on the hard and stony soil. 1863Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 181, I have given myself a bad headache in addition to my other lamings. |