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Bough and Limb Definitions

Bough

A tree branch, especially a large or main branch.

Limb

One of the larger branches of a tree.

Bough

A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

Limb

One of the jointed appendages of an animal, such as an arm, leg, wing, or flipper, used for locomotion or grasping.

Bough

A gallows.
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Limb

An extension or a projecting part, as of a building or mountain range.

Bough

An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

Limb

An extension or part distinguished from the main body or group
The conservative limb of the party.

Bough

A gallows.

Limb

A member or representative of a group
Was arrested by a burly limb of the law.
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Bough

Any of the larger branches of a tree

Limb

(Archaic)An impish child.

Limb

(Astronomy)The circumferential edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body.

Limb

(Mathematics)The edge of a graduated arc or circle used in an instrument to measure angles.

Limb

(Botany)The expanded tip of a plant organ, such as a petal or corolla lobe.

Limb

To remove the branches from.

Limb

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

Limb

A branch of a tree.

Limb

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

Limb

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limb

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

Limb

(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
The solar limb

Limb

(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

Limb

(botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

Limb

(transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

Limb

(transitive) To supply with limbs.

Limb

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

Limb

An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
A second Hector for his grim aspect,And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.

Limb

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

Limb

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limb

A border or edge, in certain special uses.

Limb

To supply with limbs.

Limb

To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Limb

One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

Limb

Any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

Limb

(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

Limb

Either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip;
The upper limb of the bow

Limb

The graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles;
The limb of the sextant

Limb

Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;
The arm of the record player
An arm of the sea
A branch of the sewer

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