Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ship-building, one of the timbers in the cant-bodies which correspond to the lower futtocks in the square body.

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  • adjective having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture

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Examples

  • They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • In 1926 the Burfrey Realty Corporation, subdivided and built sixty-one "high-class half-timber English homes of individual design"

    Michael Henry Adams: Protecting the House Where Lena Lived! 2010

  • In 1926 the Burfrey Realty Corporation, subdivided and built sixty-one "high-class half-timber English homes of individual design"

    Michael Henry Adams: Protecting the House Where Lena Lived! 2010

  • As you can see in the pictures, the town is filled with lots of half-timber cuteness.

    Archive 2009-03-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • As you can see in the pictures, the town is filled with lots of half-timber cuteness.

    Heppenheim! C N Heidelberg 2009

  • Celle was a lot like Hann Münden - tons of half-timber houses with chain stores on the first level.

    Celle C N Heidelberg 2009

  • Celle was a lot like Hann Münden - tons of half-timber houses with chain stores on the first level.

    Archive 2009-08-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

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