lim|ber

lim|ber
lim|ber1 «LIHM buhr», adjective, verb.
–adj.
1. bending or moving easily; flexible: »

Willow is a limber wood. A piano player should have limber fingers.

 SYNONYM(S): supple, nimble, pliant, lithe. See syn. under flexible. (Cf. ↑flexible)
2. Figurative. yielding readily to strain or influence: »

You put me off with limber vows (Shakespeare).

–v.t.
to make limber.
–v.i.
to become limber: »

He is stiff when he begins to skate, but limbers up easily.

╂[perhaps < limb1]
–lim´ber|ly, adverb.
–lim´ber|ness, noun.
lim|ber2 «LIHM buhr», noun, verb.
–n.
the detachable front part of the carriage of a horse-drawn field gun.
–v.t., v.i.
to attach the limber (to) in preparing to move.
╂[alteration of Middle English lymour, or limmer, perhaps < Middle French limonière wagon with shafts < Old French limon shaft]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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