Laming vbl. sb.

[f. LAME v. + -ING¹.] The action of the verb LAME; rendering lame, halting or defective.

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1583. Babington, Commandm., vi. (1637), 49. Hurting and laming of our brethren in fight.

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1599. Life More, in Wordsw., Excl. Biog. (1853), II. 118. To the laming and blemishing of a most notable sentence.

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1849. Grote, Greece, II. lxi. (1862), 311. The laming of their horses on the hard and stony soil.

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1863. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 181. I have given myself a bad headache in addition to my other lamings.

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