dial. ? Obs. [? f. LAME sb.1 + -ING1; or var. LAMIN.] (See quots.)
1685. Plot, Staffordsh., 131. The partings or lamings which the coal has in it self;… all coale-Mines … haveing divers partitions in the body of the coal it self, made by thin substances called partings or lamings. Ibid., 141. The Laming (that lyes between the measures of the coal).
1847. Halliwell, Lamings, the partings of coal. Staff.
