timbered

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English

Etymology

From timber +‎ -ed.

Adjective

timbered (comparative more timbered, superlative most timbered)

  1. Wooded; bearing timber; forested.
    • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Roger Malvin's Burial”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      His steps were imperceptibly led almost in a circle; nor did he observe that he was on the verge of a tract of land heavily timbered, but not with pine-trees.
    • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 29:
      It [the Platte River] is destitute of timber along its banks, but there are here and there islands which are well timbered.
  2. Made from timber, especially large or coarsely finished timber.
    • 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
      The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.

Derived terms

Verb

timbered

  1. simple past and past participle of timber