In artillery, the two-wheeled carriage to which the trail of a field gun-carriage is attached for travel.
♦ Limber-boxes are the chests fitted above the axle-tree of the limber for ammunition.
♦ Limber up! is the command so to raise and attach.
·adj Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. II. Limber ·noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or c...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Synonymous with limber-trunk. ...
A small chain rove fore-and-aft through the limber-passage to clear it when necessary, by hauling ba...
The line of limber-holes throughout the whole length of the floor, on each side of the keelson, for ...
See limber boards. ...
The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson, wrought over the lower ends of the first futtocks. ...