Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with trees; wooded.
- adjective Made of or framed by timbers, especially exposed timbers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Built; framed; shaped; formed; contrived; made.
- Made of or furnished with timber or timbers: as, a well-timbered house; well-timbered land.
- Made like timber; massive, as heavy timber.
- In heraldry, ensigned by a helmet or other head-piece set upon it: said of the escutcheon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with timber; -- often compounded.
- adjective rare Built; formed; contrived.
- adjective obsolete Massive, like timber.
- adjective Covered with growth timber; wooden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Wooded , havingtimber on it, forested - adjective Made from
timber , especially large or coarsely finished.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective furnished with or made of wood or timbers
- adjective covered with growing timber
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Examples
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Also along the edge of grassy spots in timbered areas.
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Also along the edge of grassy spots in timbered areas.
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The river-bottoms being much more heavily "timbered" -- to use a woodsman term -- than the higher grounds, there was little of the park-like "openings" on its immediate banks, though distant glimpses were had of many a glade and of many a charming grove.
Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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After undergoing the mad bondage of man, the creek finally returned to its ancient ways, all soiled and smirched from its toil, and coiled lazily among the broad flats and timbered spaces where the valley widened to its mouth.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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The town, so long the site of pilgrimage, now hosts the forces of globalization: a thin-crust Italian pizzeria; a Starbucks in the half-timbered cottage adjoining the great arch.
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It sat in country that, Gist said, was “fine, rich, level land, well timbered . . . well watered with a great number of little streams and rivulets, full of beautiful natural meadows.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The ceilings are wood timbered and the carved wooden doors that connect the passageways are imposingly large.
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After that they timbered the well with bottom boards from the wagons and wagon tongues, and the digging went on.
Chapter 13 2010
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My friend, 67 years old and rail-thin from battling cancer, had trudged up a steep timbered hill, sat most of the day, shot a tremendous buck, then made the long hike back to camp.
Melancholy Milestone 2009
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Instead of a Swiss guard in full Renaissance costume, a porter in shirtsleeves opens an elfin door; you cross a courtyard, push open the timbered main portal yourself, and go up to some rooms that look like a period exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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