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Meaning of TIMBERED

Pronunciation:  'timburd

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  furnished with or made of wood or timbers; "timbered walls"
  2. [adj]  covered with growing timber; "thickly timbered ridges clothed with loblolly pine and holly"; "hills timbered up to their summits"
 
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 Synonyms: half-timber, half-timbered, timber-framed, wooded
 
 Antonyms: untimbered
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tim"bered\, a.
1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a
   well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. --L'Estrange.
2. Built; formed; contrived. [R.] --Sir H. Wotton.
3. Massive, like timber. [Obs.]
         His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled.
                                               --Spenser.
4. Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered
   land.
 

 

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