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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 timbers
2. covered with growing timber
Familiarity information: TIMBERED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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.
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