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Limbers

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

noun-plural. Gutters or channels on each side of a ship's keelson that drain bilge water into the pump well.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Plural form of limber.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of limber.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well

Word Usage

"The limbers were the last things to turn up, being in the rear of the battalion, but when they did the cooks soon pulled the necessary things out and proceeded to knock up a meal."

Equivalent

flexible flexile limber chest

Antonym

unlimber

Verb Form

limbered limbering limbers

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

warm up attach horse-drawn vehicle

Form

limbered limbering limber up

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

flexible pliant yielding supple

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Kimber imber timber timbre

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

supple springy pliant long-limbed well-shaped agile sinuous well-knit lithesome flexible