timbered
- made of or furnished with timber.
- covered with growing trees; wooded: timbered acres.
Origin of timbered
timber
- the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
- growing trees themselves.
- wooded land.
- wood, especially when suitable or adapted for various building purposes.
- a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like: A timber fell from the roof.
- Nautical. (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.
- personal character or quality: He's being talked up as presidential timber.
- Sports. a wooden hurdle, as a gate or fence, over which a horse must jump in equestrian sports.
- to furnish with timber.
- to support with timber.
- to fell timber, especially as an occupation.
- a lumberjack's call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground.
Origin of timber
Examples from the Web for timbered
Contemporary Examples
We crossed a stream into a village of timbered white plaster houses, some with pretty wrought-iron balconies.
Historical Examples
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
- made of or containing timber or timbers
- covered with trees; wooded
timber
- wood, esp when regarded as a construction materialUsual US and Canadian word: lumber
- (as modifier)a timber cottage
- trees collectively
- mainly USwoodland
- a piece of wood used in a structure
- nautical a frame in a wooden vessel
- potential material, for a post, rank, etche is managerial timber
- (tr) to provide with timbers
- a lumberjack's shouted warning when a tree is about to fall
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for timbered
timber
n.
Old English timber "building, structure," later "building material, trees suitable for building," and "wood in general," from Proto-Germanic *temran (cf. Old Frisian timber "wood, building," Old High German zimbar "timber, wooden dwelling, room," Old Norse timbr "timber," German Zimmer "room"), from PIE *demrom-, from root *dem-/*dom- "build" (source of Greek domos, Latin domus; see domestic (adj.)).
The related Old English verb timbran, timbrian was the chief word for "to build" (cf. Dutch timmeren, German zimmern). As a call of warning when a cut tree is about to fall, it is attested from 1912 in Canadian English. Timbers in the nautical slang sense (see shiver (n.)) is from the specialized meaning "pieces of wood composing the frames of a ship's hull" (1748).