| 释义 | timbered, ppl. a.|ˈtɪmbəd|
[f. timber n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Constructed of timber; built or made of wood, wooden.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 5338 Castels doun bette, and tymbred houses brent. 1552Huloet, Tymbred, materiatus,..materior,..to worke in tymber. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 351 A great thicket of wood, where their timberd Cabine stood. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. ix. 172 About a hundred yards from the Fort..there is a low timbered House. 1848Lytton Harold i. iv, They entered London, a rude, dark city, built mainly of timbered houses. 1905A. 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 comb., or qualified by an adv.)
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1333/1 Loe here the mighty reasons, the stronge tymbered argumentes. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 22 My Arrowes Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 80 Let them be as Sleek and well Timber'd as those Atoms Epicurus made his Soul of. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 28 Sept., 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 comb.)
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 144 Your childe is weake tymbred, let scholing alone. 1622Fletcher & Massinger Spanish Curate ii. i, A fine straite timber'd man and a brave soldier. 1769Stratford Jubilee ii. i, I'm as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet. 1861Times 27 Sept., Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers.
3. Furnished with growing trees; wooded.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3724/4 Piggott's Farm.., being well Timbred. 1754Fielding Fathers ii. i, That estate..of yours in Hampshire is a very ill-timbered estate. 1854Bartlett Mex. Boundary I. ix. 234 So rich a timbered country. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 6 About one half of the timbered land in the island belongs to the Government. |
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