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"Lame" Definition

noun

A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor.
A person who is not in the know.
A thin plate especially of metal.
Small overlapping steel plates joined to slide on one another (as in medieval armor).
A brocaded clothing fabric made from any of various fibers combined with tinsel filling threads.

adjective

Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible: Lame from the accident, he walked with a cane. A lame wing kept the bird from flying.
Marked by pain or rigidness: a lame back.
Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.
Having a body part and especially a limb so disabled as to impair freedom of movement.
Marked by stiffness and soreness.

verb-transitive

To cause to become lame; cripple.

verb

To make lame.
To make weak or ineffective.

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