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adjective
1.(of a person or body part) lithe or supple.
‘I have to practise to keep myself limber’
‘Throughout his lengthy international career, the much-tattooed and free-speaking Wilson has cultivated a reputation as a renegade in a sport whose image can be as stiff as its athletes are limber.’
2.(of a thing) flexible.
‘limber graphite fishing rods’
‘You want to wind up with a sidearm sweep and lob the assemblage far across the open water, and this is best done with the long, limber stick.’
noun
1.The detachable front part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels and an axle, a pole, and a frame holding one or more ammunition boxes.
‘They are required to carry out a series of manoeuvres with the 1.5 tonne gun and limber, including changing wheels, moving around a track and firing two salvoes of three shells each.’
‘He achieved greater mobility by building lighter gun carriages, and having the guns and _limbers_ drawn by paired horses rather than in tandem, as they had been before.’
verb
1.Attach a limber to (a gun)
‘a six-horse limbered gun’
‘Everyone else was spread out in a circular patter, behind some kind of cover, covering the rest of us while our weapons were limbered.’
2.Warm up in preparation for exercise or activity, especially sport or athletics.
‘the acrobats were limbering up for the big show’
‘However, neither were too keen to queue up for a rub down by students from the Institute of Physical Therapy who were only too happy to help the women limber up for the 10 km race.’
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