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LimbEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Variant of Lum.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗limbEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗limbEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Latin limbus (“border”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- LimbEnglish · e-38538-7410
Limb, lim, n. a jointed part in animals, the leg: a projecting part: a branch of a tree: a part of something else, as 'a limb of the law:' an imp, scapegrace, as 'a limb of Satan.'—v.t. to supply with limbs: to tear off
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Limb, lim, n. an edge or border, as of the sun, &c.: the edge of a sextant, &c.—adj. Lim′bate (bot.), bordered. [Fr. limbe—L. limbus.]
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