1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:
[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4
[…]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
lam
noun
Etymology From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.