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Limber   /lˈɪmbər/   Listen
Limber

noun
1.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson.
verb
(past & past part. limbered; pres. part. limbering)
1.
Attach the limber.  Synonym: limber up.
2.
Cause to become limber.
adjective
1.
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable.  Synonym: supple.  "A limber imagination"
2.
(used of artifacts) easily bent.
3.
(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely.  Synonym: supple.



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"Limber" Quotes from Famous Books



... two different things that added up to make one lovely feel for a little girl. The way your hair tugged at its roots, all streaming away; every single little hair tied tight to your head at one end, and yet so wildly loose at the other; tight, strong, firm, and yet light and limber and flag-flapping . . . it was like being warm and cool at the same time, so different ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... lips, and proceeded to stump up and down the lobby, "to limber up," as she said, although her three companions offered to do anything that ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint
... remark: "I find it does not tend toward efficiency." It was a remark that irritated and, to the minds of the men at the country clubs, seemed to place him. They liked to play polo because they liked to play polo, not because it kept their muscles limber and their ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... 'Mine always has gorillas ridin' 'em.' Well, I looked around and I would have been scared myself if I hadn't recognized our own bunch of snakes, each one of 'em with the tail of the snake in front of him in his mouth. Old 'Limber Larry'—we called him that on account of his habit of going to sleep curled up in a true lover's knot—was in the lead, and behind him came about half a mile ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe
... was rather a severe and dangerous sport. A lump of soft clay was stuck on the end of a limber and springy willow wand and thrown as boys throw apples from sticks, with considerable force. When there were fifty or a hundred players on each side, the battle became warm; but anything to arouse the bravery of Indian boys seemed to them a ...
— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman


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