A two-wheeled cart that carried one ammunition chest for an artillery piece. The artillery piece could be attached to the limber, which would allow both to be pulled by a team of horses.  Also verb: The practice of attaching a piece of artillery to the limber that holds its ammunition.  See image »

a limber person is supple or adaptive; a limber thing is flexible

"make pliant or supple," 1748, from limber (adj.). Related: Limbered; limbering. With up (adv.) by 1901. The military sense "attach a limber to a gun" (1783) is from limber (n.).

"pliant, flexible," 1560s, of uncertain origin, possibly from limb (n.1) on notion of supple boughs of a tree [Barnhart], or from limp (adj.) "flaccid" [Skeat], or somehow from Mid [..]

"detachable forepart of a field-gun carriage," 1620s, alteration of Middle English lymer (early 15c.), earlier lymon (c. 1400), probably from Old French limon "shaft," a word perha [..]

A two-wheeled cart generally pulled by horses accommodating an ammunition chest and attachable in tandem to a carriage for field cannon.

Originally a wheeled and detachable part of a gun carriage that enabled it to be horse drawn by supporting the gun trail and providing the means for hitching the horse team to the gun carriage.  It al [..]

fruit juice frozen into ice cubes and eaten as a snack. The most famous limbers are sold in Old San Juan

, adj. flexible; light; frail.