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▪ I. unˈtimbered, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
1. Not furnished with timbers; frail.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 43 Where's then the sawcy Boate, Whose weake vntimber'd sides but euen now Coriual'd Greatnesse? 1814Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1861) II. 371 The vessel of state is yet too weak and untimbered to buffet the waves.
2. Unprovided with timber; not wooded.
1808Pike Sources Mississ. ii. App. (1810) 8 The vast tract of untimbered country..between the..Missouri, Mississippi, and the western Ocean. 1828–32Webster s.v., Untimbered land.
▪ II. unˈtimbered, ppl. a.2
[un-2 4, 8.]
Stripped of timber; deforested.
1618Breton Court. & Countryman A 4 b, Your state is weakened and your Land wasted, your Woods vntimberd, your Pastures vnstored. |