lameter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a dated Scottish and dialectal term for a person who has difficulty walking; now potentially offensive

   In the nineteenth-century novel, the injured man bitterly calls himself a lameter.

A Scottish and dialectal formation from lame, recorded in the variants lameter, lamiter, lametar, and laimeter. The precise formation of the ending is obscure. The word is historical and can be offensive when applied to a person today.

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