well-timbered

adjective

1

a

: well braced or strengthened by timbers

a well-timbered house

a well-timbered mine

b

: strongly made or put together : having a good structure or constitution

a well-timbered horse

2

: having a good quantity of growing timber

a well-timbered tract of land

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined above

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