EGAVE

limber

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Flexible, pliant, bendable.
    He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.
  2. verb To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
  3. noun A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece may be attached for transport. (Some versions have built-in storage bins for ammunition. Either the limber itself or the ammunition box may also be called a caisson.)
  4. noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
  5. noun Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
  6. verb To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)

Similar words

supple flexible flexile limber up flexibility lithe agile soft bendsome pliable

Often followed by

up and pine as jim holes pines enough to

Word family

limbered limberer limberest limbering limberly limberness limbernesses limbers

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