limbers
Meaning of limbers
- warm up in preparation for exercise or activity, especially sport or athletics.
the acrobats were limbering up for the big show
mid 16th century (as an adjective): perhaps from limber2 in the dialect sense ‘cart shaft’, with allusion to the to-and-fro motion.
plural noun
the detachable front part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels and an axle, a pole, and a frame holding one or more ammunition boxes.
verb, 3rd person present- attach a limber to (a gun).
a six-horse limbered gun
Middle English lymour, apparently related to medieval Latin limonarius from limo, limon- ‘shaft’.
Information about limbers
- The singular form of limbers is: limber.
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Hyphenation of limbers
lim-bers
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- limbers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
limbers synonyms
Meaning make (something) ready for use or consideration:
Meaning perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve or maintain proficiency in it:
Meaning teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time:
Meaning produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill:
Meaning (of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking:
Meaning use or apply (a faculty, right, or process):
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