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   limb

   /lɪm/

   noun

   • 1. an arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing: "they got out, stretching their cramped limbs" Similar armlegwingextremityappendageprotuberanceprojectionarchaic:member
   • 2. a large branch of a tree: "the bare limbs of a high tree" Similar branchbough
   • ▪ a branch of a cross.
   • ▪ each half of an archery bow.
   • 3. a projecting landform such as a spur of a mountain range, or each of two or more such projections as in a forked peninsula or archipelago.
   • ▪ a projecting section of a building.

   Word Origin Old Englishlim (also in the sense ‘organ or part of the body’), of Germanic origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. limbed adjective
   • 2. limbless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • M

     3

   • B

     3

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