limber
lim ber
- n a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson
- v attach the limber
limber a cannon - v cause to become limber
The violist limbered her wrists before the concert - s (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
a limber imagination - s (used of artifacts) easily bent
- s (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
- In sports where limber, prepubescent bodies can outmaneuver more mature athletes, kids can be designated as older than they are.
- Updike, modern American literature's smoothest and most limber stylist, chose an unlikely soul for his great fictional hero: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, an ignorant, philandering 20 .
- First came Brain Age, a surprisingly enjoyable math-and-reading game that a Japanese doctor designed to keep your mind limber mental calisthenics.