[f. LAME v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb LAME; rendering lame, halting or defective.
1583. Babington, Commandm., vi. (1637), 49. Hurting and laming of our brethren in fight.
1599. Life More, in Wordsw., Excl. Biog. (1853), II. 118. To the laming and blemishing of a most notable sentence.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. lxi. (1862), 311. The laming of their horses on the hard and stony soil.
1863. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 181. I have given myself a bad headache in addition to my other lamings.
