单词 | laming |
释义 | lamingn.1 The action of lame v.; rendering lame, halting, defective, or disabled. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > action of dismemberingc1386 mutilating1562 laming1583 dismembration1597 mutilation1611 dismemberment1815 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vi. 258 Hurting, and laming of our brethren in fight. c1599 Life T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biogr. (1810) II. 145 To the laming and blemishing of a most notable sentence. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lxi. 488 The laming of their horses on the hard and stony soil. 1863 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 181 I have given myself a bad headache in addition to my other lamings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019). lamingn.2 dialect ? Obsolete. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 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. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 141 The Laming (that lyes between the measures of the coal). 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lamings, the partings of coal. Staff. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.11583n.21686 |
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