Limber

Quick meaning: Limber is an adjective meaning Flexible, pliant, bendable.

Meaning

Flexible, pliant, bendable.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
2. (in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
3. (nautical, in the plural) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
4. (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.)
5. (obsolete) To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Word Forms

• limberer
• limberest
• limbers
• limbering
• limbered

Synonyms for limber

Depending on context, synonyms include flexible, flexile, supple.

Antonyms for limber

Common opposites include unlimber.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supple, flexible, flexile, flexibility, lithe, agile.

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