[
US
/ˈɫɪmbɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈɪmbɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪmbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson
ADJECTIVE
-
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
a supple mind
a limber imagination - (used of artifacts) easily bent
- (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
VERB
-
cause to become limber
The violist limbered her wrists before the concert -
attach the limber
limber a cannon
How To Use limber In A Sentence
- The officers ran out down the stairs and onto King Street, where the men of Lossburg's regiment had unlimbered a battery of cannons in a small park.
- The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
- Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
- After a thought, Thyrenea unlimbered her MA carbine.
- This instrument is a favourite tool of the armed forces and mountain climbers all over the world.
- Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
- They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
- They drank strong coffee, brewed over Gareth's small climber's gas stove, and consumed cold iron and high-protein rations. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- Smith has been one of the climbers employed by the centre to set routes on all the climbs, and that's filled what might have been a relatively dull summer.
- Do you want to go ahead with the advance party, or would you rather be in the second group of climbers?
