LIMBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limbed mean? 

• LIMBED (adjective)
  The adjective LIMBED has 1 sense:

1. having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination)

  Familiarity information: LIMBED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination)

Context example:

strong-limbed

Similar:

boughed (having boughs (of trees))

flipper-like (having limbs that are used as flippers)

heavy-limbed (having heavy limbs)

sharp-limbed (having sharp limbs)

Antonym:

limbless (having no limbs)

 Context examples 

“And a little one from Brockenhurst!” shouted a huge-limbed fellow who sprawled beneath a tree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On either side stretched lawns, their broad sweep broken here and there by great sturdy-limbed oaks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In front there stood a small group of Indians—little, clean-limbed, red fellows, whose skins glowed like polished bronze in the strong sunlight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And each showed up the other’s points on account of the extreme contrast between them: the long, loose-limbed, deer-footed youngster, and the square-set, rugged veteran with his trunk like the stump of an oak.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell—illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her authority and laughed it to scorn; she dressed well, and had a presence and port calculated to set off handsome attire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A spear's length in front of them sat the spare and long-limbed figure of Black Simon, the Norwich fighting man, his fierce, deep-lined face framed in steel, and the silk guidon marked with the five scarlet roses slanting over his right shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, by these ten finger-bones! it is a passing strange thing to me to think that it was but in the last fall of the leaf that we walked from Lyndhurst together, he so gentle and maidenly, and you, John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)