limber

Easily bent; flexible; pliant; lithe; yielding: as, a limber rod; a limber joint.

To cause to become limber; render limber or pliant.

To attach the limber to, as a gun; fasten together the two parts of a gun-carriage, in preparation for moving away: often with up.

The shaft or thill of a wagon: usually in the plural.

The fore part of the carriage of a field-gun or cannon, consisting of two wheels and an axle, with a framework and a pole for the horses.

Nautical, a hole cut through the floor-timbers as a passage for water to the pump-well.

To attach to the limber.

to change a gun carriage into a four-wheeled vehicle by attaching the limber.

Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.

To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.