limb

Meaning

Noun

1. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
2. A branch of a tree.
3. The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
5. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
6. Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).

Verb

1. To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
2. To supply with limbs.

Synonyms

member

branch

bough

twig

extremity

leg

🦵

arm

foot

🦶

tree branch

dismember

edge

section

brim

body

small branch

end

🔚

verge

dial

fellow

flank

foreleg

fringe

inclusion

ingredient

initiate

instalment

joint

leaf

ledge

limbo

limbus

lip

lot

marge

margin

melody

moiety

movement

neb

offshoot

organ

pad

parcel

passage

paw

peak

piece

portion

radius

rim

segment

share

shin

shoot

sprig

term

threshold

tibia

tip

tome

tributary

tune

vane

volume

way

wing

🪽

off-shoot

angle meter

fellow member

arris

ganiometer

shankbone

member of the body

one-half

angle dekkor

slope indicator

part

extremitas

abutment

affiliate

agency

ala

appendage

bit

body part

border

bow

🙇

brow

butt

chant

clinometer

component

component part

constituent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪm/

Etymology

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.