limber

1. 1.

   attach the limber

   “limber a cannon”

   Synonymslimber up

   Broaderattach
2. 2.

   cause to become limber

   “The violist limbered her wrists before the concert”

   Broaderwarm up

1. 1.

   a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson

   Broaderhorse-drawn vehicle

Other forms of limber

plural

limbers·

past tense

limberred·

present participle

limberring·

comparative

limberrer·

superlative

limberrest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about limber

What does limber mean?

limber means "(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in limber?

limber has 2 syllables: lim-ber. The stress falls on "lim". In IPA it is /ˈlɪmbɚ/.

What is another word for limber?

Close synonyms include supple, supple, limber up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is limber a common word?

limber is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.