Definition of limber

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Limber (n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit..

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Lithe :: Lithe (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis..
Flagginess :: Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
Unlimber :: Unlimber (v. t.) To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun..
Pliable :: Pliable (v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant..
Alpinist :: Alpinist (n.) A climber of the Alps.
Galloper :: Galloper (n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber..
Jalap :: "Jalap (n.) The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa..
Prolonge :: Prolonge (n.) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes..
Limber :: Limber (v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun..
Clematis :: Clematis (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower..
Lissome :: Lissome (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Litheness :: Litheness (n.) The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Limberness :: Limberness (n.) The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.
Climber :: Climber (v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
Limber :: Limber (v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
Betel :: Betel (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves..
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork..
Limmer :: Limmer (a.) Limber.
Climber :: Climber (n.) One who, or that which, climbs.
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