limbers
Gets more flexible
Limbers is the third-person singular verb form of limber, meaning to make flexible or supple, usually with "up": She limbers up before every run.
As a noun, limbers are the detachable front parts of gun carriages, consisting of wheels and an axle to which horses were hitched for transport: The artillery crew attached the limbers and moved out.
Extending muscles or material
- looseningReducing tightness or tension
- warming upPreparing body for exertion
- mobilizingAssembling for action
- agilityQuickness and ease
suppleness · pliability · elasticity · bendiness · looseness · mobility · range of motion · flexing
Wheeled artillery support frame
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- caissonWatertight underwater enclosure
- hitchingAttaching with rope
- towingPulling another vehicle along
field gun · battery · harness · unlimbering · deployment · wheel assembly · axle · trail
stretching
Extending muscles or material
- looseningReducing tightness or tension
- warming upPreparing body for exertion
- mobilizingAssembling for action
agility · suppleness · pliability · elasticity · bendiness · looseness · mobility · range of motion · flexing · unlocking
gun carriage
Wheeled artillery support frame
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- caissonWatertight underwater enclosure
- hitchingAttaching with rope
towing · field gun · battery · harness · unlimbering · deployment · wheel assembly · axle · trail · military transport
- artillery wagonscaissons, gun carriages
- artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
- coastal artillerycoastal batteries, gun emplacements, heavy ordnance, Fort Sumter, Fort McHenry
limbersstiffens
Becomes less pliable
tightens · rigidifies · tenses · hardens · seizes up
limberscools down
Reduces in temperature
winds down · rests · relaxes · settles · recovers
- limber upPrepare body for exertion
- limbering upPre-exercise flexibility preparation
- limbered upLoosened stiff muscles
limber, limbered, limbering, limberness, unlimber, unlimbered, limber up