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#1 2016-04-22 16:08:17

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1691

"limb" for limp

With all my strength, I got up and limbed to the emergency exit. ... I limbed away from the hospital, but only soon to collapse again, and blackout.
https://www.wattpad.com/154364971-the-d … ke-control

I struggled to pull myself up off the bed thingy, and I limbed away
https://www.quotev.com/story/5776778/St … ed-Heart/9

Kaila looks up to her Uncle with tear eyes wondering if the Rogue he had fought with was killed or had limbed away and died of it’s injuries. Tito of course told her that the Rogue limbed away with it’s injuries and had probably died from them.
http://kitsune019.deviantart.com/art/Tradey-543922414

Don’t know quite what to say about this one – the return limper for “go out on a limp”. Limping does involve a gimpy, gammy or otherwise game limb. He limbed away is nicely literal, but those without a limp are limbing just as surely; who knows how limbed is being pronounced. There are a significant number of fanfic hits, such as the three above.

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