Limber

/ˈlɪmbə(ɹ)/ · adjective

Meaning

Flexible, pliant, bendable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Flexible, pliant, bendable.
2. (transitive) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
3. (military) 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. (in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
5. (nautical, in the plural) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
6. (obsolete) To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)

Example Sentences

He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.

Not yet the bargeman that doth rowe / with long and limber oare

This is a very complicated case, Maude. A lot of ins, a lot of outs. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limber.

Go back to the Island and limber up with a few drafts.

Her stiff hams, that have not been bent to a civility for ten years past, are now limbered into courtesies three deep at every word

An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels, / There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.

As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.

we covered the rutted, rattling, dusty pot-holed roads of coastal Victoria, six big Walers in front, the cannon at the rear, and that unsprung cart they called a ‘limber’ in the middle.

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Word Forms

• limberer
• limberest
• limbers
• limbering
• limbered

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