limbered
Meaning of limbered
- 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.
verb, past tense- 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 limbered
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Hyphenation of limbered
lim-bered
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- limbered is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
limbered 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):
Words that rhyme with limbered
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