limbing
SayLIM-ing/ˈlɪmɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of limb.
After felling the pine, the crew began limbing it for transport.
Limbing the oak left a pile of branches scattered across the trail.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. It is a verb in the crew was limbing the pine, and a noun naming the work itself in the limbing of the oak. Because limb can mean both stripping limbs away and supplying them, the object decides the reading: with a tree or an animal, it means removal. A rougher, separate use describes thoroughly beating an opponent in a fistfight.
limbing is a form of limb
limb, verb: To lop off a tree's branches, or sever an animal's limbs from its body. Full entry
- Spelling
- limb → limbing: add -ing
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