All 9 Uses of
limber
in
War and Peace
- He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly removed.†
Chpt 2 *limbers = makes flexible
- But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before.†
Chpt 2unlimbered = not made flexible or warmed upstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlimbered means not and reverses the meaning of limbered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Here he dismounted, and stopped beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon.†
Chpt 2
- Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen's bonfires.†
Chpt 2limbers = makes flexible
- "Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon.†
Chpt 2
- Among the limbers lay several dead men.†
Chpt 2
- When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin.†
Chpt 2limbered = made flexible
- When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.†
Chpt 11unlimbered = not made flexible or warmed upstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlimbered means not and reverses the meaning of limbered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
of a person's body: flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
or:
readily adaptable -- especially of someone's mind
or:
readily adaptable -- especially of someone's mind