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limber
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Killing Lincoln
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- The roads of central Virginia are now littered with the detritus of Lee's retreating army: guns, blankets, broken wagons, artillery limbers, dead horses, and dead men.†
p. 53.9limbers = makes flexible
- Lee can see it in the way the gun crews have unlimbered the cannons and howitzers and are now sighting them toward his lines.†
p. 76.6unlimbered = 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.
- There is no thunder of artillery or jingle of a cavalry limber.†
p. 78.3 *limber = make flexible
Definitions:
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(1)
(limber as in: the gymnast stays limber) of a person's body: flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
or:
readily adaptable -- especially of someone's mind - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)