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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
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Examples
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They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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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
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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
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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
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As you can see in the pictures, the town is filled with lots of half-timber cuteness.
Heppenheim! C N Heidelberg 2009
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Celle was a lot like Hann Münden - tons of half-timber houses with chain stores on the first level.
Celle C N Heidelberg 2009
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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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