LIM'BER, adjective Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. In America, it is applied to material things; as a limber rod; a limber joint. LIM'BER, noun In a ship, a square hole cut through the floor timbers, as a passage for water to the pump-well.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI