Four-horsed carriages with limbers are used with cavalry, tripods with the infantry sections.
I sent my orderly to the rear to find the limbers and have the guns taken back to their original position, in the open field, to the right of Brandy Station.
The men in charge of the limbers were swept back in the confusion.
In consequence, all concerned were so exhausted that they were unable to drag in the remaininglimbers or the fifth gun.
One or two of the limbers were similarly withdrawn by hand, but the work was most severe and the distance considerable.
When the order to retire was received, Major Phipps-Hornby ordered the guns and their limbers to be run back by hand to where the teams of uninjured horses stood behind the unfinished buildings.
Horse artillery consists of men mounted on horses or on the limbers of the guns.
No transport or ammunition limbers were safe from the enemy's guns.
Ammunition limberswere hurried up, and I stood ready to dart anywhere.
One of his pieces was soon disabled; but with the remaining gun, captured from the enemy six months before, he maintained the unequal fight until his limbers were empty, and he received peremptory orders from Stuart to withdraw.
To disengage the dead animals from the limbers and to replace them by others would have wasted many minutes, and he had eagerly suggested to Magruder that the guns should be attached to the waggon-limbers instead of to their own.
Attacked simultaneously in front, flank and rear, with the guns and limbers entangled among the infantry, Winder's division was subjected to an ordeal of which it was without experience.
More empty limbers came toiling up from the valley, unable to go fast because of the darkness, and only dashing across the area over which shrapnel were bursting.
To move divisions along narrow roads requires an immense amount of time, even if the roads are clear, and those roads toward Loos were crowded with the transport and gun-limbers of the assaulting troops.
Fortunately the limbers could come as far as Battalion Headquarters, and cans had to be carried forward from there only; even this took many men, and our numbers were by no means large.
There were no communication trenches and no light railways, so that all stores and rations, which could be taken by limbers as far as Packhorse Farm only, had to be carried by hand to the front line.
Transport arrived before midnight and the drivers, as usual, saved us endless carrying parties by taking the limbers right up to Company Headquarters in the village.
Wollaston with the machine guns and ammunition limbers which had entrained at Godewaersvelde and travelled all night, and at 4.
However, all preparations for more open warfare were made, and the supply of rations and ammunition was reorganised in such a way that either limbers or pack animals could be used at short notice.
Our first line transport was also reorganised in such a way that each Company had its own two limbers with Lewis Guns and ammunition, bombs and all necessaries.
As soon as it was dark we moved off with our Lewis Gun limbers and medical cart, keeping as far as possible to cross-country tracks and avoiding all main roads.
Early in the morning of the 23rd we reached once more the huts at Ouderdom, having at last had the sense to have the limbers to meet us at Kruisstraat to carry packs, which at this time we always took into the line with us.
The Lewis Gun limbers and cookers were now allotted to Companies, and the remainder of the 1st Line Transport occupied a field close to us.
Our teams and limbershad come up, all except one team of C Battery.
I despatched written orders to the battery waggon lines for gun teams and limbers to be brought up to within a thousand yards of the guns.
Our batteries had horses and limbersin readiness for a quick rushing up of the guns.
Gun limbers and firing battery waggons need not be kept within 2000 yards of gun positions any longer to-day.
Teams with limbers to withdraw your guns to rear position by 8 P.
On these vehicles or limbers the gunners could remain in position and bring the weapons into action at any moment.
Ammunition was drawn from the reserve stores afloat, and the supply columns' boxes were refilled, as well as the battery limbers and the men's pouches.
As I have already explained, the guns of the 32nd and 37th field batteries, together with the limbers and ammunition, were sent on to Wad Habeshi by water.
The limberswere manufactured by the Maxwell Motor Car Co.
Limbers in the same quantity as carriages were ordered from the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.
Orders for limbers were placed with the same company on December 1.
Part of the line passed in front of a very large grove and there our limbers could fill up in a few minutes with oranges such as we had never tasted before.
There was no room for two limbers to pass abreast, and they could be turned only by separating the two halves and turning one at a time.
On such ground limbers and carts will have to be emptied if necessary.
Limbers had to be left midway between Berfilyah and Beit Likkia.
Previous to this, however, some of the gallant gunners and the escort had succeeded in getting away the limbers of the guns, notwithstanding the heavy fire.
Lieutenant Maturin, although wounded, collected some men and got the limbers out of fire; while Captain Webb and Lieutenant Shand charged boldly forward to a ridge, which they held till all save two of their men were killed or wounded.
He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly removed.
Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen's bonfires.
Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon.
Thither the living horses from the limbers and guns were taken, and the wounded were conveyed.
Though one or two of the limbers were thus valiantly withdrawn under a perfect cyclone of shot and shell, the exhausted men found it impossible to drag in the remaining limbers or the fifth gun.
The rations are carried up in sacks by limbers as far as the transport can take them--it varies according to the level of the ground and activities.
These limbers are met by ration parties who carry two sacks each, right up to the trenches.
Two of their limberswere blown up in succession, with thunderous noise, and this further discouraged them.
One of the Lieutenants turned and motioned with his saber to the riders seated on their horses in the line of limbers under the cover of the slope.
To complete the illusion dummy guns fashioned from tree trunks and the wheels of useless limbers are rigged up, and partially hidden under branches, the idea being to convey the impression to the man aloft that they are the actual artillery.
To General Hunt, chief of artillery, "Have your limbers filled.
Others came with demoniac yells, climbing upon the limbers and shooting horses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
