Limb

Quick meaning: Limb is a noun meaning A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

Meaning

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

More Meanings

1. A branch of a tree.
2. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
3. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
4. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
5. Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
6. (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
7. (transitive) To supply with limbs.

Example Sentences

the solar limb

Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

Word Forms

• limbs
• limbing
• limbed

Synonyms for limb

Depending on context, synonyms include delimb, bough.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boughed, leg, paw, arm, lamina, wing.

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