limber

Meanings

Adjective

• Flexible, pliant, bendable.

Verb

• 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.)

Noun

• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• unlimber

Origin

• Unknown; possibly related to limb or limp.
• For the obsolete limmer, from Old Norse limar, plural of lim.