| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lim·bers |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l m b rz |
| PLURAL NOUN: | Gutters or channels on each side of a ship's keelson that drain bilge water into the pump well. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably alteration of French lumière, one of the limbers, from Old French lumiere, opening, light, from Late Latin l min ria, pl. of lminre, window, from Latin, lamp. See luminary.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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