Definitions for limbed

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Spelling: [limd]

IPA: /lɪmd/

Limbed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in limbed (bdeilm).

Definitions for limbed

noun

1. a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
2. a large or main branch of a tree.
3. a projecting part or member:
4. a person or thing regarded as a part, member, branch, offshoot, or scion of something:
5. Archery. the upper or lower part of a bow.
6. Informal. a mischievous child, imp, or young scamp.

Idioms

1. out on a limb, in a dangerous or compromising situation; vulnerable:

adjective

1. having a specified number or kind of limbs (often used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to cut the limbs from (a felled tree).

Origin of limbed

Middle English word dating back to 1275-1325; See origin at limb¹, -ed³

Examples for limbed

Hurriedly he threw off his jacket and proceeded to climb the big pine, which, fortunately, was limbed to the ground.

The men fell to with axes and saws while Harry limbed the logs and looked after the Mayor.

Built up and limbed as just described, our hero, as you may well imagine, must have been a man of prodigious bodily strength.

These small trees they limbed out, and cut up into pieces about three feet in length, just as a wood-chopper would cut cord wood.

But why should he have even one, seeing that in reality he is limbed like other people?

May the seventy-seven limbed thunderbolt strike you on St. Michael's day!

For our present purpose we may again divide the vertebrates into limbed and limbless.

He writhed and twisted like a limbed snake, and bit and tore with teeth and hands.

He was gigantic in stature and limbed like the Farnesian Hercules.