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TIMBERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does timbered mean? 

TIMBERED (adjective)
  The adjective TIMBERED has 2 senses:

1. furnished with or made of wood or timbersplay

2. covered with growing timberplay

  Familiarity information: TIMBERED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIMBERED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished with or made of wood or timbers

Context example:

timbered walls

Similar:

half-timber; half-timbered (having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture)

timber-framed (framed by exposed timbers)

Antonym:

untimbered (lacking timbers)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Covered with growing timber

Context example:

hills timbered up to their summits

Similar:

wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)


 Context examples 


A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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