timberedadj.
/ˈtɪmbəd/ 1. Constructed of timber; built or made of wood, wooden.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood
treenc1000
stockya1400
treea1400
timberedc1412
timber?1530
wooden1538
woodya1540
ligneal1599
ligneous1812
carpentered1837
betimbered1847
wooden-built1860
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 5338 Castels doun bette, and tymbred houses brent.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tymbred, materiatus,..materior,..to worke in tymber.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 351 A great thicket of wood, where their timberd Cabine stood.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 172 About a hundred yards from the Fort..there is a low timbered House.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. iv. 64 They entered London, a rude, dark city, built mainly of timbered houses.
1905 A. C. Benson Upton Lett. (1906) 139 A little ancient church, with a timbered spire.
2.
a. Of a thing (concrete or abstract): Having a structure (of a specified kind); constructed, framed, built, made. (In parasynthetic combinations, or qualified by an adverb.)
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > formed or constructed
wroughtOE
wroughtOE
confecta1398
combinedc14..
complosec1420
made1428
counterfeit1463
edificatec1470
construct?a1475
featuredc1500
compact1531
fashioned1535
conflate1541
confectedc1550
framed1565
timbered1570
constitute1589
compacted1598
fact1600
coagulate1610
quilted1617
coagulated1633
conflated1652
composititious1657
made-up1677
compactilea1682
constructed1785
put-together1848
compaginate1877
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1333/1 Loe here the mighty reasons, the stronge tymbered argumentes.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 22 My arrowes Too slightly tymberd for so loued Arm'd, Would haue reuerted to my bowe againe.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 75 Let them be as Sleek, and well Timber'd, as those Atoms Epicurus made his Soul of.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 116 Lord Oxmington was well known to have his brain very ill timbered.
b. Of a person or animal: Having (such and such) a bodily structure or constitution; framed, built. (Usually in parasynthetic combinations.)
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [adjective]
timbered1581
physiqued1888
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 143 Your childe is weake tymbred, let scholing alone.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. E4/1 A fine straite timber'd man, and a brave souldier.
1769 Stratford Jubilee ii. i I'm as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet.
1861 Times 27 Sept. Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers.
3. Furnished with growing trees; wooded.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded
woodland1351
woody1382
well-woodeda1552
well-timbered1567
wooded1605
nemorous1623
arboreous1664
sylvan1667
timbered1701
wood-bound1710
wood-hung1747
forested1796
wooden1816
clumped1819
clumpy1832
tree-clad1836
loggy1851
treey1852
treeful1855
treed1860
groved1876
woodlanded1945
1701 London Gaz. No. 3724/4 Piggott's Farm.., being well Timbred.
a1754 H. Fielding Fathers (1778) ii. i. 32 That estate..of your's in Hampshire, is a very ill timber'd estate.
1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents I. ix. 234 So rich a timbered country.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 6 About one half of the timbered land in the island belongs to the Government.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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