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LIMBERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does limbers mean?
• LIMBERS (noun)
The noun LIMBERS has 1 sense:
1. a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well
Familiarity information: LIMBERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("limbers" is a kind of...):
channel (a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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