limber

Flexible, pliant, bendable.

He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.

Not yet the bargeman that doth rowe / with long and limber oare

To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.

Her stiff hams, that have not been bent to a civility for ten years past, are now limbered into courtesies three deep at every word

Go back to the Island and limber up with a few drafts.

A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport.

An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels, / There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.

As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.

Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the pump well.