Limber

Definition: Limber

Limber

Adjective

1. (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination".

2. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely.

Verb

1. Attach the limber, as to a cannon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "limber" was first used: 1565. (references)

Synonyms: Limber

Softness

Adjective: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient.

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Crosswords: Limber

Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Just be limber baby (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake)

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Books

• Limber limericks (reference)

• Stretch for Health: Easy-Does-It Exercises for a More Limber, Flexible Body (reference)

• Stretchercize Is Your Limber Lost (reference)

• Stretching: Simple, Safe, and Refreshing Exercises to Help Make You Limber (reference)

• Wood As Building and Hobby Material: How to Use Limber, Wood-Base Panels, and Roundwood Wisely in Construction, for Furniture, and As Fuel (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Explosion of a rebel limber at the battle near Middleburg June 21st. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In his hand he held a stick which was limber like a twig of grape vine, and heavy as iron

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Health

Bifocals or special glasses called prisms are sometimes prescribed for PSP patients to remedy the difficulty of looking down. Formal physical therapy is of no proven benefit in PSP, but certain exercises can be done to keep the joints limber. (references)

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Expressions using "limber": Limber boards ♦ Limber box ♦ Limber box or chest ♦ Limber chain ♦ Limber chest ♦ Limber clearer ♦ limber hole ♦ limber pine ♦ Limber rope ♦ Limber strake ♦ limber up ♦ To limber up. Additional references.

Ending with "limber": de-limber.

Containing "limber": feller-limber-bucker.

Albanian

shkrydhem, i zhdërvjellët (agile, dexterous, dextrous, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, supple, versatile), i përkulshëm (flexible, supple, whippy), i epur (whippy), elastik (elastic, flexible, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, tensile). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرن (ductile, elastic, field, flexible, lissom, lissome, lithesome, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, supple, yielding), ‏لدن (ductile, elastic, flexible, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliant, soft, supple, yielding), ‏سهل الأنثناء, ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам подвижен, гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), закачам за предницата (limber up), предница (breast, forepart, instep), правя подвижен, подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile). (various references)

Chinese 

污水�". (various references)

Czech

zvláènìt, ohebný (amenable, elastic, flexible, floppy, limp, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, yielding). (various references)

Danish

lemmergat (drainage hole, limber hole, watercourse), paahaengsvogn til transport af ammunition (ammunition limber). (various references)

Dutch

lokgat * (drainage hole, limber hole, watercourse), loggat (drainage hole, limber hole, watercourse), waterloosgaten (limber hole), waterloggat (drainage hole, limber hole, watercourse), artillerie-aanhangwagen (ammunition limber). (various references)

Farsi 

مطیع (Able, Docile, Obedient, Submission, Submissive), نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), تمرین نرمش کردن , تاکردن , تاشو (Jackknife, Lissome, Pliant, Slipper), سربزیر (Low, Submissive), خمیده کردن (Camber), خمیده (Embowed), خم کردن (Bend, Crank, Crook, Crump, Flex, Hunch, Incline, Reeve, Wry), خم شو (Lithe, Pliable, Pliant). (various references)

Finnish

irtonainen (free, loose, separate, slack, unfastened). (various references)

French

souple (limp, lissome, lithe), flexible, agile (lissome, lithe, lively). (various references)

German

locker (cool, fast, fluffily, fluffy, frothy, lax, laxly, light, loose, loosely, loose-packed, open, relaxed, relaxedly, slack, spongy, unconstrained, unformal, ungirt), protze (wolf tree), gelenkig (agile, lissome, lithe, nimble, nimbly, supple), biegsam (ductile, elastic, flexible, limberly, limp, lithe, malleable, pliable, pliably, pliant, supple, supplely, willowy), beweglich (agile, fluid, free, loose, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, nimble, supple). (various references)

Greek 

κιλλίβασ, εύκαμπτοσ (flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy, withy), ευλύγιστοσ (lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple). (various references)

Hebrew 

כפיף (flexible, lithe, malleable, pliable, pliant, subordinate, supple), �"יופן. (various references)

Hungarian

ruganyos (elastic, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, springy, supple, to walk with a swing), rugalmas (corky, elastic, flexible, pliant, resilient, springy, stiff, whippy), lövegmozdony, kocsirúd (beam, perch, pole, recoil rod, shaft), hajlékony (ductile, flexible, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, pliable, pliant, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), fürge (agile, beany, brisk, deft, fleet, lissom, lissome, lithesome, lively, mercurial, nifty, nimble, nippy, perky, quick, rattling, smart, spry, swift), ágyútaliga. (various references)

Indonesian

lentur (ductile, flexible, malleable, sag), gemulai (pliant, supple, swaying). (various references)

Italian

rendere flessibile, rendere agile, poco stretto (fluffily, loose, loosely, unformal, ungirt), pieghevole (flexible, foldable, folding, pliable, pliant, supple), flessibile (flexible, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy), avantreno (forecarriage), agile (agile, dexterous, dextrous, fleet, lean, light, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, quick, slippy, supple). (various references)

Manx

limbyr, lhoobagh (arching, bending, bowing, coiled, convoluted, crooked, crooked morally, curved, curvilinear, faltering, inflexional, plastic, pliable, serpentine, shifty, sinuous, snakiness, supple, terry, tortuous, twisting, vermiculate, willowy, winding), jannoo feiosagh, cur limbyr fo. (various references)

Pig Latin

imberlay.(various references)

Portuguese

tornar flexível, flexível (bendable, collapsible, deflective, demountable, ductile, flexible, flexile, folding, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, soft, springy, supple, whippy, willowy), engatar (engage, gear, hook, interlock), dúctil (ductile, malleable, supple), ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light-footed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references)

Romanian

pliant (collapsible, folder, folding), mlãdios (adaptable, agile, graceful, lissom, lithe, supple), mlãdia (bend, twist), flexibil (ductile, flexible, flexile, inflected, manageable, pliable, pliant, supple, willowy, yielding), antetren (fore carriage), îndupleca (cause, cede, determine, melt, reason, relent, yield). (various references)

Russian 

разминаться гибкий, гибкий (ductile, elastic, flexible, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, reedy, supple, versatile, whippy, wiry), проворный (adroit, agile, brisk, deft, dexterous, dextrous, light-footed, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nimble, nippy, on the jump, quick, rash, zippy), податливый (compliant, ductile, facile, malleable, pillowy, pliant), передок орудия, передок (vamp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staviti na rudu, savitljiv (elastic, flexible, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy, willowy, yielding), ruda (kingbolt, ore, shaft, thill), gibak (double jointed, flexible, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, springy, supple). (various references)

Spanish

no riguroso (flexibility, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome), hacer no riguroso, hacer flexible, flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky), flexible (detergent, exciting, flex, flexible, flexibly, flexile, floppy, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, resilient, slouch, soft, supple, whippy, yielding), armón (bed), ágil (able, adroit, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

böjlig (ductile, flexible, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, whippy). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้งอไ�"้, ที่งอไ�"้, งอไ�"้. (various references)

Turkish

top arabası ön parçası, kıvrak (active, agile, lissom, lissome, lithe, quick, strong, supple, tripping), esnek (elastic, flexible, flexile, limp, lithe, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, responsive, spring, springy, sprung, supple), çevik (agile, brisk, dapper, fleet, glib, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, nippy, spry, swift, tripping, volant). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити гнучким, голобля (shaft, singletree), гнучкий (applicant, ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, versatile), проворний (alert, expeditious, smart), дишло (beam, neap, pole). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mềm dẻo (plastically, whippy), mềm (cushiony, ductile, flabby, flaccid, limp, loose, mushy, soft, supple, supply, yielding), dễ uốn nhanh nhẹn. (various references)

lymer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "limber": limbered, limberer, limberest, limbering, limberly, limberness, limbernesses, limbers. (additional references)

Words ending with "limber": climber, unlimber. (additional references)

Words containing "limber": climbers, unlimbered, unlimbering, unlimbers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Limber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alimbaev, ibm-er, Jimfer, lambe, lamber, lemba, Lemmer, libere, Libern, liberr, libre, lidba, lieben, lieber, limba, limbe, limbery, limbey, limbir, Limbourg, Limer, Linberg, Lisbeg, Lisbet, Lisbjerg, Liuba, Llanaber, Lombe, Lomberg, Lydbury. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: birle, liber, miler.

-2 letters: berm, bier, bile, birl, brie, brim, emir, lier, limb, lime, lire, merl, mile, mire, riel, rile, rime.

-3 letters: bel, elm, ire, lei, lib, lie, mel, mib, mil, mir, reb, rei, rem, rib, rim.

-4 letters: be, bi, el, em, er, li, me, mi, re.

+1 letter: balmier, climber, embroil, lambier, limbers, limbier, nimbler, timbrel.

+2 letters: birdlime, bloomier, brimless, bromelin, climbers, embroils, forelimb, imbalmer, limbered, limberer, limberly, marblier, periblem, sublimer, timbrels, unlimber, wamblier, whimbrel.

+3 letters: admirable, airmobile, berkelium, beryllium, bicameral, birdlimed, birdlimes, bramblier, bromelain, bromeliad, bromelins, crumblier, embrittle, embroiled, forelimbs, imbalmers, lamebrain, limberest, limbering, lumbering, marbleise, marbleize, marbliest, miserable, miserably, periblems, sublimers, tremblier, trembling, unlimbers, verbalism, whimbrels.