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lameter, lamiter Sc. and dial.|ˈleɪmɪtə(r)|
Also 9 lametar, laimeter.
[f. lame a.; the formation is obscure.]
A lame person; a cripple.
1804J. Struthers Poor Man's Sabbath Wks. 1850 I. 43 A lisping lamiter, of feeble frame. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 358 He proved a lametar to the day of his death. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxvi. (1857) 448 You have..friends who will..not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me. 1884J. Payne 1001 Nts. VIII. 119 The king..sent after her that one-eyed lameter, for that he was his chief vizier. 1896Crockett Men of Moss Hags xliii. 307 A foot..came into the passage, dunt-duntin' like a lameter hirplin' on two staves.
attrib.1822Galt Entail I. xiii. 95 Jenny Hirple, a lameter woman, who went round among the houses of the heritors of the parish with a stilt. |