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 

• LIMBERS (noun)

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)