Meaning

noun someone who doesn't understand what is going on

noun a fabric interwoven with threads of metal

verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

originFrom Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).

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