lame

adj

1. (especially)Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

   “With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.”

   “Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, ⁠I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads; […]”

2. (especially)Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
3. (dated, especially, offensive)Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

   “a lame man”

4. (broadly, dated)Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.

   “a lame endeavour”

   “O, most lame and impotent conclusion![…]”

   “It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.”

   “The ی consonant is our English y[…] It is really a sad mistake for us, who possess this useful consonant, to adopt the lame expedient to which other languages are forced to have recourse, namely, the use of the vowel i, with or without the diaresis over it.”

5. (colloquial)Unconvincing or unbelievable.

   “He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.”

6. (colloquial)Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.

   “He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.”

verb

1. (transitive)To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

   “And if you don't want to lame your horse, you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.”

   “Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.”

noun

1. (slang)A stupid or undesirable person.

   “You lames tryna clone my style and run wit it.”

2. A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.

   “This rim involved a raised rolled edge on the rerebrace that was inserted into a raised lip on the lower lame of the pauldron. This lip allows the arm to rotate without the need for leather straps and can be clearly seen carved on to the effigy […]”

   “These pauldrons are generally asymmetrical with the left pauldron wider than the right, which is cut away for the passage of the lance. It would be attached to the shoulder by points through a restored leather tab on the top lame at the apex […]”

3. (in-plural)A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
4. A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

name

1. A surname.