timbered
[tim-berd]
adjective
made of or furnished with timber.
covered with growing trees; wooded: timbered acres.
Origin of timbered
timber
[tim-ber]
noun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
interjection
Origin of timber
before 900; Middle English, Old English: orig., house, building material; cognate with German Zimmer room, Old Norse timbr timber; akin to Gothic timrjan, Greek démein to build. See dome
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Related Words for timbered
constructed, beamed, trussed, scaffolded, board, frame, log, peg, plant, slab, timber, woody, clapboard, ligneous, lumbering, sylvan, uncut, arboraceous, jungly, treedExamples from the Web for timbered
Contemporary Examples of timbered
Historical Examples of timbered
We'd got down about sixty feet, all timbered, and was thinking of crosscutting.
At this moment they caught sight of him coming up a timbered draw.
A Texas RangerWilliam MacLeod Raine
A timbered room, not larger than a parlor in a city flat and not near so high.
The Modern RailroadEdward Hungerford
With what awe we passed the timbered mansions of the county families!
From Gretna Green to Land's EndKatharine Lee Bates
All of Minnesota east of the Mississippi is a timbered region.
The Seat of EmpireCharles Carleton Coffin
timbered
adjective
timber
noun
verb
interjection
Word Origin for timber
Old English; related to Old High German zimbar wood, Old Norse timbr timber, Latin domus house
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