Lamed

verb

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

"1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: And if you don't want to lame your horse you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly."

2.verbTo shine.

3.nounThe twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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