limb
Nouns
- (n) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
- (n) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree tree branch,
- (n) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
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(n) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
- the upper limb of the bow
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(n) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
- the limb of the sextant
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(n) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- the arm of the record player
- an arm of the sea
- a branch of the sewer