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timbered

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,215 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Timbered means built with a visible wooden frame. A timbered cottage, half-timbered houses, a timbered hall.

Half-timbered is the commoner form and describes the black and white buildings of Tudor England, where the frame carries the weight and the panels between are filled in. The frame was often numbered and cut off site, then assembled like a kit.

Definitions of timbered

  1. 1adjectivetimberedBuilt with a visible wooden frame.C1

    “The village has old timbered cottages with thatched roofs.”

timbered is a construction.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dem- — to build; to arrange

  2. Proto-Germanic

    *timrą — building; timber

  3. Proto-West Germanic

    *timr

  4. Old English

    timber

  5. Middle English

    tymber

  6. English

    timber

  7. English, today

    timbered

From timber + -ed. timber comes from Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic timr, from Proto-Germanic timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European dṓm (“home, house”)). 2 Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), {{cog|de|

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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timbered in the wild

  • The historic town centre, known for many well-preserved timbered and half-timbered houses, is protected as an urban monument zone.

    Mšeno

  • A village with roots in antiquity, today it the quaint region features timbered houses circling the church and Bishop's Palace.

    Issigeac

  • The village is circular in plan with most buildings of medieval half-timbered style (most are original) and still retains much of its 13th-century walls.

    Issigeac

  • Today, that past is evident in a well-preserved old town centre with many half-timbered houses.

    Køge

  • A baserri is a traditional half-timbered or stone-built type of housebarn farmhouse found in the Basque Country in northern Spain and Southwestern France.

    Baserri

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