Unlimber

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make ready for action.
  • v. To detach (a gun or caisson) from its limber.
  • verb-intransitive. To prepare something for action.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To deploy an artillery piece for firing (ie, to detach it from its limber).
  • v. To clumsily put into employ a large weapon or object.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To detach the limber from.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not limber; not flexible; not yielding.
  • To detach the limbers from; take off the limbers of: as, to unlimber guns.
  • To detach the limbers from the guns.
    • Word Usage
    "And while Bill or Jerry or Tom is beginning to unlimber his thinking and speaking apparatus, I suggest that he join us in the drink."
    Antonym
    limber   
    Verb Form
    unlimbered    unlimbering    unlimbers   
     
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