单词 | well-timbered |
释义 | well-timberedadj. 1. a. Strongly or finely built or made of wood; having a good or attractive timber frame or structure. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood > strongly well-timberedc1175 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1035 Tær oferr þatt arrke wass, An oferrwerrc wel timmbredd. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Our houses are commonly strong & wel timbered. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X5v As when the Mast of some well timbred hulke Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe. View more context for this quotation 1611 J. Downham 2nd Pt. Christian Warfare ii. xiv. 368 The thicknesse of their stone or well timbred walles, nor the strength of their nailed gates will serue to keepe out death. 1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 399 As it happeneth to a well-timbered mansion in the common concussions of an earthquake, it receives the impression, and returns back to its original concatenation of parts in a few moments. 1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. iii. 131 The approach to the house was..through a small jealous wicket, formed in the great well-timbered gate. 1836 G. Dubourg Violin ix. 233 Instruments..should be sufficiently well-timbered; their durability is much affected when they are finished off too weak in wood. 1865 Dicker's Mining Rec. 19 Sept. 153/1 There is a very strong well-timbered shaft. 1916 C. M. Doughty Titans vi. 152 And painfully, on some well-timbered wain-machine; A giants corse thence hale home. 2011 ‘L. Carroll’ Watchtower 63 A raucous din seemed to be coming from the new, well-timbered house of three stories at that address. b. Of a person, animal, etc.: having a strong, sturdy physique or good constitution; well-built. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [adjective] > good well-madec1325 well-setc1330 featous1340 largec1405 well-trussedc1425 well-attempereda1460 well-featureda1460 clean-limbed1461 well-bodied1481 well-drawn?a1534 clean-madea1535 trussed1548 clean-legged1568 trim1568 well-knit1581 well-thewed1583 well-timbered1595 clear-limbed1596 clean-timbered1598 well-mounted1607 well-turned1631 clever1674 neat-limbeda1697 well built1706 well-set-up1790 clean-built1840 athletic1925 mesomorphic1926 1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship sig. D3v He would scarcely haue gone his owne length in an hower he was so well timbered beneath. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Cv A well-timberd fellow, he would ha' made a good columne and he had been thought on when the house was a building. View more context for this quotation 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions 328 The Devil of Subornation came next, which was a good-complexion'd, and a well-timber'd Devil. 1735 J. Swift Full & True Acct. Execution W. Wood in Wks. IV. 248 Those of the softer Sex..lamented that so comely and well-timbered a Man, should come to so untimely an End. 1769 Stratford Jubilee ii. i I'm as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 66 Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow. 1861 Times 27 Sept. 5/5 Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers,..50 to 65 guineas. 1998 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Farmlife section) 8 Fell ponies—strong-bodied and often strong-willed, with well-timbered limbs. 2. Having or containing many trees; thickly wooded. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded woodland1351 woody1382 well-woodeda1552 well-timbered1567 wooded1605 nemorous1623 arboreous1664 sylvan1667 timbered1701 wood-bound1710 wood-hung1747 forested1796 wooden1816 clumped1819 clumpy1832 tree-clad1836 loggy1851 treey1852 treeful1855 treed1860 groved1876 woodlanded1945 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxix. f. 328v High and well timbred forrests. 1651 E. Bland et al. Discov. New Brit. 2 The Land generally to this Towne is Champion, very rich, and the Towne scituate in a rich levell, well timbered, watered, and very convenient for Hogs and Cattle. 1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court xii. 32 Like Druids then your Forrests sacred keep..: no Rapacious Hand shou'd dare deface, The Royal Stores of a well Timber'd Chase. 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. I. 236 The old well timbered woods.., have,..got up fortuitously from seedling-plants, rising in neglected roughets. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. iv. 46 You descend into a well-timbered inclosure. 1904 A. C. Fraser Biogr. Philos. i. 26 The charming well-timbered parks which surround it. 1941 Wisconsin: Guide to Badger State (Federal Writers' Project) 19 Well-timbered country provides the breeding habitat for pileated woodpeckers. 2006 J. Halliday Wine Atlas Austral. 139 A number of narrow valleys in the foothills of the Alps, with steep, well-timbered hillsides. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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