limber
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɪmbə(ɹ)/
limber (comparative limberer, superlative limberest)
- Flexible, pliant, bendable.
- He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.
- The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar.
limber (limbers, present participle limbering; past and past participle limbered)
- To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
limber (plural limbers)
- (military) A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 29:
- 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.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 29:
- (in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
- (nautical, in the plural) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
- French: avant-train
- German: Protze
limber (limbers, present participle limbering; past and past participle limbered)
- (obsolete) To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)
- German: aufprotzen
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