Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose

Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.

Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

the solar limb

Word Forms

• limbs
• limbing
• limbed

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When Should You Use Limb?

Use limb when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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