Crippled or disabled by injury to or defect of a limb or limbs; specifically, walking with difficulty; halting; limping: as, a lame man or horse.Inefficient from injury or defect; unsound or impaired in strength; crippled: as, a lame leg or arm.Figuratively, imperfect; lacking finish or completeness; defective in quality or quantity; halting; insufficient; hobbling: as, lame verse; lame rimes; a lame excuse.To make lame; cripple or disable; render imperfect or unsound: as, to lame an antagonist; to lame an arm or a leg.n. Earthenware.n. A broken piece of earthenware; a potsherd.Earthen: used of pottery: as, a lame pig (an earthen vessel).n. In armor, a plate of metal.