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timbered

USTIM-burd/ˈtɪmbɚd/UKTIM-buhd/ˈtɪmbəd/

3 meanings of timbered

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Built or made from wood, usually large or rough-cut pieces.

    Like a log cabin put together from rough, heavy logs.

    The old timbered barn had stood at the edge of the field for a century.

    They restored the timbered ceiling using the original wooden beams.

    Similarwooden, beamed

  2. 2
    adjective
    Covered with many growing trees, like a forest.

    Like a hillside thick with a dark green forest.

    The timbered hills stretched as far as we could see.

    Settlers slowly cleared the heavily timbered land for their crops.

    Similarwooded, forested, woody, treed

    Oppositetreeless, open, bare

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  3. 3
    verb
    Simple 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.

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timbered is a form of timber

timber, verb: To put wooden beams into something to hold it up. Full entry

Forms
timbertimbers he/she/ittimbering -ing formtimbered past tense, past participle
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".