limber

Plural: limbers

Noun

• a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson
• A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport.
• The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
• Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.

Verb

Verb Forms: limbered, limbering, limbers

• To make flexible or supple; to warm up.
• attach the limber
  • "limber a cannon"
• cause to become limber
  • "The violist limbered her wrists before the concert"
• To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
• To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)

Adjective Satellite

• (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
  • "a limber imagination"
• (used of artifacts) easily bent
• (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely

Adj

• Flexible, pliant, bendable.

Adjective

• Flexible or supple; able to bend easily.

Examples

• A good Scrabble player must have a LIMBER mind to adapt to any tile rack.
• Before a big tournament, players often LIMBER up their vocabulary.
• He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.

Synonyms

limber up, supple

Antonyms

unlimber

Related Words

caisson, LIMBERLY

Anagrams of limber