limb
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Definition of limb:
one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow" the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant" 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" |