timbered
USTIM-burd/ˈtɪmbɚd/UKTIM-buhd/ˈtɪmbəd/
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- 3Simple past and past participle of timber. Use this form when the action already happened.
The miners timbered the shaft before they dug any deeper.
They timbered the tunnel walls to make them safe.
Note
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timbered is a form of timber
timber, verb: To put wooden beams into something to hold it up. Full entry
- Spelling
- timber → timbered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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Origin
It comes from the word "timber" plus the ending "-ed".