Timbered

Word TIMBERED
Character 8
Hyphenation tim bered
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Definitions and meanings of "Timbered"

What do we mean by timbered?

Covered with trees; wooded. adjective

Made of or framed by timbers, especially exposed timbers. adjective

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.

Furnished with timber; -- often compounded. adjective

Built; formed; contrived. adjective

Massive, like timber. adjective

Covered with growth timber; wooden. adjective

Wooded, having timber on it, forested adjective

Made from timber, especially large or coarsely finished. adjective

Furnished with or made of wood or timbers adjective

Covered with growing timber adjective

To fit with timbers.

To construct, frame, build.

To light or land on a tree.

To make a nest.

To surmount as a timber does.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Timbered

The word "timbered" in example sentences

Also along the edge of grassy spots in timbered areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

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.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ceilings are wood timbered and the carved wooden doors that connect the passageways are imposingly large. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hunt in some pretty rough terrain covering brushy timbered out lots with Honeysuckle thickets and rocky hillsides. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As to mistaking it for a doe it was in full velvet against a timbered backdrop about a hundred yards away. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We bought the land when a paper company sold their vast holdings in these timbered ridges, and many other groups of hunters got parcels surrounding ours. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After that they timbered the well with bottom boards from the wagons and wagon tongues, and the digging went on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he superimposed a feverish metropolis on a waste of timbered, snow-covered flat, he predicated first the gold-strike that made the city possible, and next he had an eye for steamboat landings, sawmill and warehouse locations, and all the needs of a far-northern mining city. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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