Artillery vs Limber - What's the difference?
artillery | limber |
Large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xx. 40
An army unit that uses such weapons.
Gunnery.
Flexible, pliant, bendable.
* Turberville
(obsolete) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used to pull an artillery piece into battle.
(in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
(military) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 29:
*:we covered the rutted, rattling, dusty pot-holed roads of coastal Victoria, six big Walers in front, the cannon at the rear, and that unsprung cart they called a ‘limber ’ in the middle.
(nautical, in the plural) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.
(obsolete) To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.)
As nouns the difference between artillery and limber
is that artillery is large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person while limber is (obsolete) a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used to pull an artillery piece into battle.As an adjective limber is
flexible, pliant, bendable.As a verb limber is
to cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant or limber can be (obsolete) to prepare an artillery piece for transportation (ie, to attach it to its limber).artillery
English
Noun
(artilleries)- And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad.
- (Campbell)
limber
English
Etymology 1
(en)Adjective
(en adjective)- He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.
- The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar.
