limber
limber is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.
- transitive verb. To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.
- adjective. Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
- transitive verb. To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
- noun. a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson
- verb. cause to become limber
"The violist limbered her wrists before the concert"
- verb. attach the limber
"limber a cannon"
- adjective. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
- adjective. (used of artifacts) easily bent
- adjective. (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
"a supple mind"
"a limber imagination"
Synonyms
Common word forms
limbers, limbered, limberer, limberly, limberest, limbering, limberness
Words from these letters
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