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half-timbered

adj
/ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd/UK/ˌhæf ˈtɪmbɚd/US

Etymology

From half- (prefix meaning ‘half, partial; not complete’) + timbered.

  1. derived from *dem-✻ — “to build; to arrange”
  2. derived from *timrą✻ — “building; timber”
  3. derived from *timr✻
  4. derived from timber
  5. derived from tymber
  6. suffixed as timbered — “timber + ed”
  7. prefixed as half-timbered — “half + timbered”

Definitions

  1. Of a building

    Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub, etc. (the infill), especially if the timber frame is visible on the outside of the building.

    • Having ideally supposed that the County Town must be superior to all others in point of beauty and extent, we were disappointed to find it a small place, consisting of about a hundred half-timbered houses forming a miserable street.
    • The construction here described, is exactly similar to that followed in the old half timbered houses of England.
    • Some of the streets are very narrow, with old half timbered houses on each side; Crown-street is a specimen of the early style of its street architecture.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA