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Encyclopedia Britannica



LIMBER

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 691 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LIMBER , an homonymous word, having three meanings. (1) A two-wheeled carriage forming a detachable
part
  of the equipment of all guns on travelling carriages and having on it a framework to contain ammunition boxes, and, in most cases, seats for two or three gunners. The French equivalent is avant-
train
 , the Ger. Protz (see ARTILLERY and ORDNANCE). (2) An
adjective
  meaning pliant or flexible and so used with reference to a person's mental or bodily qualities,
quick
 , nimble, adroit. (3) A nautical
term
  for the holes cut in the flooring in a ship above the keelson, to allow water to drain to the pumps.
The etymology of these words is obscure. According to the New
English
  Dictionary the origin of (I) is to be found in the Fr. limoniere, a derivative of Limon, the
shaft
  of a vehicle, a meaning which appears in
English
  from the 15th century but is now obsolete, except apparently among the miners of the north of England. The earlier English forms of the word are lymor or limrner. Skeat suggests that (2) is connected with " limp," which he refers to a Teutonic base lap-. meaning to hang down. The New English Dictionarypoints out that while " limp " does not occur till the beginning of the 18th century, " limber " in this sense is found as early as the 16th. In
Thomas
  Cooper's (1517 ?1594)
Thesaurus
  Linguae Romanae et Britannicae (1565), it appears as the English equivalent of the Latin lentus. A possible derivation connects it with " limb,"


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