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 

• TIMBERED (adjective)

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.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)