Meaning of Lames | Babel Free

Definitions

Small steel plates combined so as to slide one upon other and form a piece of armour: plural of lame.

plural, plural-normally

Equivalents

Examples

“FAULD of three lames, fluted. TASSETS of five fluted lames attached to the fauld by two pairs of steel hinges (modern), the bottom edges boldly turned under and roped, the edge of the lower lame hollowed and strongly roped.”

CEFR level