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limp

/lɪmp/ noun C2
  1. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

Plural limps

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That creature had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being foot-sore.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 53 · B2
He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 15 · B2
Nevertheless, when Diana and the other girls had rushed frantically around the house--except Ruby Gillis, who remained as if rooted to the ground and went into hysterics--they found Anne lying all white and limp among the wreck and ruin of the Virginia creeper.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 175 · C1
“Everybody has been so good and kind, Marilla,” sighed Anne happily, on the day when she could first limp across the floor.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 179 · C1

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