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limber 音标拼音: [l'ɪmbɚ] a. 柔软的,敏捷的,富于弹性的
vt. 使柔软
vi. 变柔软 柔软的,敏捷的,富於弹性的使柔软变柔软 limber adj 1: ( used of e. g. personality traits) readily adaptable; " a supple mind"; " a limber imagination" [ synonym: { limber}, { supple}] 2: ( used of artifacts) easily bent 3: ( used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely [ synonym: { limber}, { supple}] n 1: a two- wheeled horse- drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson v 1: attach the limber; " limber a cannon" [ synonym: { limber}, { limber up}] 2: cause to become limber; " The violist limbered her wrists before the concert" Limber \ Lim" ber\ v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Limbered} ( l[ i^] m" b[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Limbering}.] ( Mil.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun. [ 1913 Webster] { To limber up}, to change a gun carriage into a four- wheeled vehicle by attaching the limber. [ 1913 Webster]
Limber \ Lim" ber\, a. [ Akin to limp, a. [ root] 125. See { Limp}, a.] Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar. -- Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster]
Limber \ Lim" ber\ ( l[ i^] m" b[~ e] r), n. [ For limmer, Icel. limar branches, boughs, pl. of lim; akin to E. limb. See { Limb} a branch.] 1. pl. The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [ Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Mil.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. pl. ( Naut.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. [ 1913 Webster] { Limber boards} ( Naut.), short pieces of plank forming part of the lining of a ship' s floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. { Limber box} or { Limber chest} ( Mil.), a box on the limber for carrying ammunition. { Limber rope}, { Limber chain} or { Limber clearer} ( Naut.), a rope or chain passing through the limbers of a ship, by which they may be cleared of dirt that chokes them. -- Totten. { Limber strake} ( Shipbuilding), the first course of inside planking next the keelson. [ 1913 Webster]
Limber \ Lim" ber\, v. t. To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. -- Richardson. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " limber": adaptable, anemic, asthenic, bendable, bending, bloodless, chicken, compliant, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, dull, effete, elastic, etiolated, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, faintish, feeble, fictile, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexile, flexuous, floppy, formable, formative, giving, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, impressible, impressionable, languid, languorous, like putty, limp, lissome, listless, lithe, lithesome, lustless, malleable, marrowless, moldable, nerveless, pithless, plastic, pliable, pliant, pooped, powerless, receptive, resilient, responsive, rubbery, sapless, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, springy, strengthless, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly, whippy, willowy, yielding
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