limber

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  1. adjective Bending or flexing readily; pliable.
  2. adjective Capable of moving, bending, or contorting easily; supple.
  3. transitive verb To make limber: limbered up his legs.
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  • The dragon was limber, and normally it twined about to reverse course. —  The Source of Magic
  • He is lean and limber, his gray hair pulled back fiercely. —  FSF,December2005
  • It's been a long, flaccid road to success for the limber warriors of wang behind 'Puppetry of the Penis.'
  • If my arm were so limber, I could wrap it around her waist a couple of times. —  Knowledge is Power
  • My body felt more limber, just from an hour's work. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Alteration of Middle English limour, shaft of a cart, perhaps from limon, from Old French.

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  1. Also formerly or dial. limmer; apparently for *limper, from limp + -er, with freq. (adjective) force.
  2. from limber, a.
  3. Also dial. limmer; prob. from Icelandic limar, limbs, boughs, branches (hence in English shafts), plural of lim, foliage, from limr, a limb (branch): see limb.
  4. from limber, n.
 

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