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A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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  1. n. A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
  2. n. An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
  3. n. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
  4. n. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  5. v. t. To supply with limbs.
  6. v. t. To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
  7. n. A border or edge, in certain special uses.
  8. n. The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
  9. n. The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
  10. n. The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
  11. n. one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper
  12. n. any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree