See limber boards.
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
·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
In artillery, the two-wheeled carriage to which the trail of a field gun-carriage is attached for tr...
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 ...
The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson, wrought over the lower ends of the first futtocks. ...
Used to support the backstays. ...
Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...
See chain-plates. ...
An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...
Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...