[f. LIMBER a.] trans. To make limber, pliant or supple. Hence Limbering ppl. a.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, III. 356. Her stiff hams … are now limbered into courtesies three deep at every word.
1753. Ess. Celibacy, 39. They exempt themselves from the free and limbering situations and circumstances of action.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., iii. (1885), 60. She worked her wrists … to limber ’em.
1883. F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, viii. 164. The stiffest arms can be limbered.
