limb

About 8.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
2. noun A branch of a tree.
3. noun The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
4. noun An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
5. noun A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
6. noun Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
7. verb To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

   They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

8. verb To supply with limbs.

Similar words

boughed sharp-limbed leg paw arm lamina wing peck offshoot twig

Often followed by

of is and in to or from was bud

Word family

limbed limbier limbiest limbing limbless limbs limby