half-timberadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːfˌtɪmbə/, U.S.

/ˈhæfˌtɪmbər/

Forms: see half adj. and timber n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., timber n.¹

Etymology: < half adj. + timber n.¹

A. adj.

1. Architecture. Of a building, wall, etc.: having a frame (typically left exposed, esp. for decorative effect) formed by heavy timbers, the gaps in between the timbers being filled with any of various materials such as bricks or plaster. Also: constituting, belonging to or characterized by this method of construction.A well-known type of this construction associated with the Tudor period of architecture features dark timbers filled with white plastered panels.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]

wandedc1593

brick-built1596

rock-built1596

mud-walled1607

sedgy1624

sodden1639

nogged1688

frame1760

logged1784

stucco1786

weatherboarded1794

piled1795

thick-walled1820

clapboarded1835

board-built1837

pebble-dashed1839

puncheoned1843

timber-framed1843

betimbered1847

pile-built1851

massy1855

bamboo-walled1858

portable1860

half-timber1874

stone-faced1874

Red River frame1879

ashlared1881

granolithic1881

brick-end1883

converted1888

steel frame1898

board-and-bat1902

traviated1902

steel-framed1906

prefabricated1921

prefab1937

multiwall1940

pre-engineered1955

curtain-walled1959

pre-fabbed1959

timber-frame1967

system-built1968

flat-pack1982

1607 W. Bishop 2nd Pt. Reformation Catholike Deformed 152 A man that hath an halfe-timber house couered with thetch, set on fire.

1786 Weekly Entertainer 13 Feb. 158 Instead of an half-timber building with one story projecting over the other, as I expected, the edifice was modern.

1849 Descriptive Guide N. Staffs. Railway 27 A neat lodge, in the half-timber style, has been erected.

1878 Architect 7 Sept. 126/2 The house is constructed partly of brick and stone, and partly of half-timber framework and plaster.

1900 Wrexham Advertiser 19 May 5/7 The heavy masonry of the ground floor is surmounted by a half-timber storey.

1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider xx. 254 This restaurant with its beamed ceiling, halftimber walls and very good food, is extremely popular.

2010 Times 24 Apr. (Weekend section) 23/1 The hotel is also full of character: loads of half-timber detailing, an ancient squiggly staircase, [etc.].

†2. Made of a piece or pieces of timber split in half longitudinally. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > cut or sawn > cut or sawn in specific manner

quarter cleft1666

listed1842

through-and-through-sawn1870

half-timber1874

rotary-cut1877

quarter-sawn1878

mill-run1881

flat-sawn1882

plain-sawed1888

plain-sawn1895

rift-sawn1895

radial sawn1958

radial sawed1972

1840 J. Macneill in S. C. Brees Railway Pract. 2nd Ser. 106 All the whole piles are to be shod with a wrought-iron shoe, not less than 25 lb. in weight, and the half timber piles with a similar shoe, 20 lb. in weight.

1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) vi. 42 Timbered with half-timber sets.

1904 B. Cunningham Treat. Princ. & Pract. Dock Engin. iii. 105 On the grounds of stiffness and strength, whole timber piling is preferable to half timber piling.

B. n.

1. Shipbuilding. Each of a number of timbers in a ship's frame which do not cross the keel, but have their lower ends butted against the centreline timbers, typically used at the ends of the ship, and able to be arranged at angles other than a right angle to the keel.

ΚΠ

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 26 Let in all the Half-timbers, and then get in your Kelson.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. H3 The crotches stationed in the after-hold to unite the half-timbers.

1866 A. L. Allen in Rep. No. 1582 5 in Rep. Comm. Senate United States (51st Congress, 2nd Sess.) (1890) We then had to take out top timbers and half timbers 25 feet forward and aft the one already timbered for.

2018 P. Brown Portsmouth Dockyard Story vii. 79/1 The fore and aft deadwoods were like massive knees binding the stem and stern posts to the keel, providing a solid foundation for the half-timbers and the plank ends where the hull narrowed towards the bow and stern.

2. Architecture. Each of the timbers used in constructing a half-timber building (see sense A. 1); (also) a timber used decoratively on a building to give the appearance of half-timber construction. Usually in plural.In quot. 1836 as a mass noun: timbers of this kind as a building material.

ΘΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of

pan1284

balka1300

lacec1330

pautre1360

dorman1374

rib1378

montant1438

dormant?1454

transom1487

ground-pillar?a1500

barge-couple1562

spar foot1579

frankpost1587

tracing1601

sleeper1607

bressumer1611

master-beam1611

muntin1611

discharge1620

dormer1623

mounting post1629

tassel1632

baufrey1640

pier1663

storey post1663

breastplate?1667

mudsill1685

template1700

brow-post1706

brow-stone1761

runner1772

stretching beam1776

pole plate1787

sabliere1800

frame stud1803

bent1815

mounting1819

bond-timber1823

storey rod1823

wall-hold1833

wall-strap1833

truss-block1883

sleeper-beam1937

shell1952

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood > for specific use

framing timber1522

studding1588

timber-frame1703

frame1821

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > as (part of) a structure > specific

studding1588

interdice1617

punch1623

intertie1679

angle tie1782

pan1788

nogging piece1819

needling1854

nogging1895

1836 M. Habershon Anc. Half-timbered Houses of Eng. p. xv The materials, of which houses in the Elizabethan style and age were erected, were of stone, brick, and ‘half-timber’.

1880 Mid-England July 251 We hasten..to present to our readers a sketch of one of the few remaining houses of the era, of solid and substantial ‘half-timbers’, upon which Birmingham may yet pride herself.

1905 J. Cornes Mod. Housing in Town & Country 142 The walls to the upper story are built 9 in. thick with ordinary bricks, with half timbers planted on face of the wall outside, and filled-in spaces rendered in rough-cast plaster.

1938 J. C. Seale Where we Live 30 Brick may be used with stone trimming; this is often varied by the using of half timber work in the gables with stucco between the half timbers.

2000 J. Sand in E. K. Tipton & J. Clark Being Mod. in Japan vi. 107 Nishimura went on to criticize steep roofs, broad gable boards, and the fashion for painted half-timbers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	half-timber
释义	half-timberadj.n. Brit. /ˈhɑːfˌtɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌtɪmbər/ Forms: see half adj. and timber n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., timber n.¹ Etymology: < half adj. + timber n.¹ A. adj. 1. Architecture. Of a building, wall, etc.: having a frame (typically left exposed, esp. for decorative effect) formed by heavy timbers, the gaps in between the timbers being filled with any of various materials such as bricks or plaster. Also: constituting, belonging to or characterized by this method of construction.A well-known type of this construction associated with the Tudor period of architecture features dark timbers filled with white plastered panels. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 1607 W. Bishop 2nd Pt. Reformation Catholike Deformed 152 A man that hath an halfe-timber house couered with thetch, set on fire. 1786 Weekly Entertainer 13 Feb. 158 Instead of an half-timber building with one story projecting over the other, as I expected, the edifice was modern. 1849 Descriptive Guide N. Staffs. Railway 27 A neat lodge, in the half-timber style, has been erected. 1878 Architect 7 Sept. 126/2 The house is constructed partly of brick and stone, and partly of half-timber framework and plaster. 1900 Wrexham Advertiser 19 May 5/7 The heavy masonry of the ground floor is surmounted by a half-timber storey. 1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider xx. 254 This restaurant with its beamed ceiling, halftimber walls and very good food, is extremely popular. 2010 Times 24 Apr. (Weekend section) 23/1 The hotel is also full of character: loads of half-timber detailing, an ancient squiggly staircase, [etc.]. †2. Made of a piece or pieces of timber split in half longitudinally. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > cut or sawn > cut or sawn in specific manner quarter cleft1666 listed1842 through-and-through-sawn1870 half-timber1874 rotary-cut1877 quarter-sawn1878 mill-run1881 flat-sawn1882 plain-sawed1888 plain-sawn1895 rift-sawn1895 radial sawn1958 radial sawed1972 1840 J. Macneill in S. C. Brees Railway Pract. 2nd Ser. 106 All the whole piles are to be shod with a wrought-iron shoe, not less than 25 lb. in weight, and the half timber piles with a similar shoe, 20 lb. in weight. 1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) vi. 42 Timbered with half-timber sets. 1904 B. Cunningham Treat. Princ. & Pract. Dock Engin. iii. 105 On the grounds of stiffness and strength, whole timber piling is preferable to half timber piling. B. n. 1. Shipbuilding. Each of a number of timbers in a ship's frame which do not cross the keel, but have their lower ends butted against the centreline timbers, typically used at the ends of the ship, and able to be arranged at angles other than a right angle to the keel. ΚΠ 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 26 Let in all the Half-timbers, and then get in your Kelson. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. H3 The crotches stationed in the after-hold to unite the half-timbers. 1866 A. L. Allen in Rep. No. 1582 5 in Rep. Comm. Senate United States (51st Congress, 2nd Sess.) (1890) We then had to take out top timbers and half timbers 25 feet forward and aft the one already timbered for. 2018 P. Brown Portsmouth Dockyard Story vii. 79/1 The fore and aft deadwoods were like massive knees binding the stem and stern posts to the keel, providing a solid foundation for the half-timbers and the plank ends where the hull narrowed towards the bow and stern. 2. Architecture. Each of the timbers used in constructing a half-timber building (see sense A. 1); (also) a timber used decoratively on a building to give the appearance of half-timber construction. Usually in plural.In quot. 1836 as a mass noun: timbers of this kind as a building material. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of pan1284 balka1300 lacec1330 pautre1360 dorman1374 rib1378 montant1438 dormant?1454 transom1487 ground-pillar?a1500 barge-couple1562 spar foot1579 frankpost1587 tracing1601 sleeper1607 bressumer1611 master-beam1611 muntin1611 discharge1620 dormer1623 mounting post1629 tassel1632 baufrey1640 pier1663 storey post1663 breastplate?1667 mudsill1685 template1700 brow-post1706 brow-stone1761 runner1772 stretching beam1776 pole plate1787 sabliere1800 frame stud1803 bent1815 mounting1819 bond-timber1823 storey rod1823 wall-hold1833 wall-strap1833 truss-block1883 sleeper-beam1937 shell1952 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood > for specific use framing timber1522 studding1588 timber-frame1703 frame1821 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > as (part of) a structure > specific studding1588 interdice1617 punch1623 intertie1679 angle tie1782 pan1788 nogging piece1819 needling1854 nogging1895 1836 M. Habershon Anc. Half-timbered Houses of Eng. p. xv The materials, of which houses in the Elizabethan style and age were erected, were of stone, brick, and ‘half-timber’. 1880 Mid-England July 251 We hasten..to present to our readers a sketch of one of the few remaining houses of the era, of solid and substantial ‘half-timbers’, upon which Birmingham may yet pride herself. 1905 J. Cornes Mod. Housing in Town & Country 142 The walls to the upper story are built 9 in. thick with ordinary bricks, with half timbers planted on face of the wall outside, and filled-in spaces rendered in rough-cast plaster. 1938 J. C. Seale Where we Live 30 Brick may be used with stone trimming; this is often varied by the using of half timber work in the gables with stucco between the half timbers. 2000 J. Sand in E. K. Tipton & J. Clark Being Mod. in Japan vi. 107 Nishimura went on to criticize steep roofs, broad gable boards, and the fashion for painted half-timbers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < adj.n.1607
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