Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having limbs, especially of a certain kind. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having limbs: used mostly in composition with adjectives: as, strong-limbed, large-limbed, short-limbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having limbs; -- much used in composition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
limb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination)
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Examples
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Large and exceptional women, "limbed" and thewed as gods are, with an habitual command of gesture, they lift down or open their books or unwind their scrolls like those accustomed to be the cynosure of many eyes, who have lived before crowds of inferiors, a spectacle of dignity from their childhood upwards.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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New York-native Jones 'Bones' Jones is a UFC light-heavyweight contender and a long-limbed mixed martial artist.
Elliot Worsell: America's New Fighting Hero: Bones Jones Elliot Worsell 2011
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THWACK the old wooden limbed bow went, as it launched the missle towards it's intended target.
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He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.
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THWACK the old wooden limbed bow went, as it launched the missle towards it's intended target.
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He was long limbed and lean, with a somber expression behind his eyes.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Mr. Mycoskie is the poster boy of the social-enterprise movement, raggedy haired, loose limbed and often in the smiling company of the Toms-shod poor.
Doing Good by Shoeing Well Philip Delves Broughton 2011
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New York-native Jones 'Bones' Jones is a UFC light-heavyweight contender and a long-limbed mixed martial artist.
Elliot Worsell: America's New Fighting Hero: Bones Jones Elliot Worsell 2011
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I fear we have little time left before the entire crew is disposed of by these heavy limbed brutes.
Love is the Answer, and So I Unbind You (Happy Halloween!) Darryl Price 2011
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As we all learned in preschool, Muppets are native to New York City, and once freely roamed (in a floppy, yet oddly stiff-limbed sort of way) the whole of the five boroughs.
Boing Boing 2009
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