Meanings
comparative more timbered · superlative most timbered
- Wooded; bearing timber; forested.
It [the Platte River] is destitute of timber along its banks, but there are here and there islands which are well timbered.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 291 more example
His steps were imperceptibly led almost in a circle; nor did he observe that he was on the verge of a tract of land heavily timbered, but not with pine-trees.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Roger Malvin's Burial”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of timber
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivefurnished with or made of wood or timbers
adjectivecovered with growing timber
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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