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Word Meanings - UNLIMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.

Related words: (words related to UNLIMBER)

  • DETACHED
    Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
  • UNLIMBER
    To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.
  • DETACHMENT
    1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
  • DETACH
    1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party. 2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially
  • LIMBERNESS
    The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.
  • LIMBER
    The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. (more info) 1. pl.
  • DETACHABLE
    That can be detached.
  • SEMIDETACHED
    Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall.
  • CLIMBER
    One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.

 

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