Sc. and dial. Also 9 lametar, laimeter. [f. LAME a.; the formation is obscure.] A lame person; a cripple.
1804. J. Struthers, Poor Man’s Sabbath, Wks. 1850, I. 43. A lisping lamiter, of feeble frame.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., V. 358. He proved a lametar to the day of his death.
1848. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxxvi. (1857), 448. You have … friends who will … not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me.
1884. J. Payne, 1001 Nts., VIII. 119. The king, sent after her that one-eyed lameter, for that he was his chief vizier.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xliii. 307. A foot … came into the passage, dunt-duntin’ like a lameter hirplin’ on two staves.
attrib. 1822. Galt, Entail, I. xiii. 95. Jenny Hirple, a lameter woman, who went round among the houses of the heritors of the parish with a stilt.
