Meaning of limb in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

• A branch of a tree.

• The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

• An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

• A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

• The part of a corolla beyond the throat.

verb

• To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

  Example: They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

• To supply with limbs.

noun

• The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

  Example: solar limb

• (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

• The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.