fibered

American  

[fahy-berd] / ˈfaɪ bərd /

adjective

1. (of plaster) having an admixture of hair or fiber.

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Other Word Forms

• multifibered
  adjective
• unfibered
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of fibered

First recorded in 1770–80; fiber + -ed ³

Example Sentences

On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

There are many large goats, many heavy shearing goats, but there are very few fine fibered comparatively free from kemp goats.

From Practical Angora Goat Raising by

More than that, she breathed a cleanliness of spirit, a lucid peace, a fibered self-mastery passing into light.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Hemp and flax, its chief vegetable competitors, are both long fibered.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

There are various kinds of hammocks in the market, from the light fibered silk, weighing only a few ounces, to the large corded variety of several pounds weight and capable of holding many persons.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton