Spry vs Limber - What's the difference?
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Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
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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 adjectives the difference between spry and limber
is that spry is having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active while limber is flexible, pliant, bendable.As a verb limber is
to cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.As a noun limber is
a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used to pull an artillery piece into battle.spry
English
Adjective
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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.