The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lam \Lam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lammed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lamming.] [Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr.
lami, lama, lame. See Lame.]
To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low]
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
n. A beating. vb. (present participle of lam English)
WordNet
v. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: run, scarper, turn tail, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]
See lam
Usage examples of "lamming".
He’s alive, that amazing no-good, this minute, living his crazy life, double-crossing and flimf lamming for the pure pleasure of it, for the game, world without end.
He done so by wheeling and lamming his heels into that bull's ribs so hard he kicked the critter clean through a rail fence on the other side of the road.
I remembered how Greasy had chased his Shadow from the cookshack, lamming him with the frying pan.
He pushed himself from the wing chair and leaped to the windowsill, lamming his cap down hard over his pebble-skinned skull he decreed, "She'll be gone by dawning!