Definitions
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
Word origin
From 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”).
Used in a sentence
“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; […]”
“a lame man”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Weak as an excuse”4 letters
02“Unconvincing, as an excuse”4 letters
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