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limy

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Sticky or coated with lime, a glue-like substance once used to trap birds.

Detailed Definition
Here “limy” means covered with or containing lime. The “limy snare” refers to a sticky trap spread on branches to catch insects or small birds, a historical trapping method.
Example
Example in poetry:
Keats’s “the limy snare / Waits to enthrall them” uses limy to mean sticky with birdlime, making the trap menacing; “A limy branch glittered with paste, not frost” preserves the adjective’s adhesive sense; In older rural verse, a limy twig may signal fowling rather than chalk or limestone; Compare modern “lime-coated wall,” where the word more often means containing lime or chalky residue
Additional Notes
“Limy” is an uncommon specialized adjective whose trapping sense is indicated by “the limy snare.”; Found in the poem, London's Summer Morning by Mary Robinson
Also Known As
chalky calcareous alkaline mineral-rich
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