limbers

lim·bers  (lmbrz)

pl.n.

Gutters or channels on each side of a ship's keelson that drain bilge water into the pump well.

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[Probably alteration of French lumière, one of the limbers, from Old French lumiere, opening, light, from Late Latin lminria, pl. of lminre, window, from Latin, lamp; see luminary.]

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limbers - a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well channel - a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street" plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one