Meaning of Limber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport.
2. The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
   in-plural
3. Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
   in-plural

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Examples

“An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels, / There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.”

“As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.”

“we covered the rutted, rattling, dusty pot-holed roads of coastal Victoria, six big Walers in front, the cannon at the rear, and that unsprung cart they called a ‘limber’ in the middle.”

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