Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a good framework or structure.
- adjective Covered with a good growth of timber.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Well furnished with timber: as, well-timbered land; also, made with good or abundant timber, literally or figuratively; strongly formed or built.
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Examples
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They went to Sen. Ron Wyden, of the well-timbered Oregon, who dutifully introduced legislation.
Stringing Up Gibson Guitar Kimberley A. Strassel 2011
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Some built rustic lodges on well-timbered mountain lakes (weekend houses in the area are still called "camps"), while others passed the summer months at big wooden hotels -- the kind that in succeeding years always seemed to burn down.
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The bedroom looked out over the great front door, with its portico, its terrace and flight of steps beyond, and, further still, the broad sweep of the well-timbered park to close the view.
Armadale 2003
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The land at the point is twenty or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water; and a considerable bottom of flat, well-timbered land all around it, very convenient for building.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The land at the point is twenty or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water; and a considerable bottom of flat, well-timbered land all around it, very convenient for building.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The land at the point is twenty or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water; and a considerable bottom of flat, well-timbered land all around it, very convenient for building.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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The land at the point is twenty or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water; and a considerable bottom of flat, well-timbered land all around it, very convenient for building.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Till we strike the prairie, our course is among bold, well-timbered hills, which now and then we are obliged to tunnel, and by the side of charming pastoral streams whose green bottom-land is shaded by noble plane-trees and cotton-woods.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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The dugout was cut into the side of the road and consisted of several well-timbered rooms and there were about four entrances.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
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The largest of these rivers is called by the Spanish inhabitants the river Reyes, and falls into the lake near its northern end; it is a well-timbered stream, and flows through a country of great fertility and beauty.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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