well-ˈtimbered, ppl. a.
1. Strongly built or constructed of wood.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 29 As when the Mast of some well timbred hulke Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe. 1852 Dubourg Violin (ed. 4) 344 Instruments..should be sufficiently well-timbered; their durability is much affected when they are finished off too weak in wood. |
2. Having a good structure or constitution; well-framed, well-built. Chiefly of persons and animals.
| 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Ind. iii, A well-timberde fellow, hee woulde ha' made a good columne and he had been thought on when the house was a building. 1639 T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. i. iv. (1656) 40 A well timbred Horse. 1668 R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 269 The Devil of Subornation came next, which was a good-complexion'd, and a well-timber'd Devil. 1697 Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. 76 Let them [sc. the ‘animal spirits’] be as Sleek and well Timber'd, as those Atoms Epicurus made his Soul of. 1769 Stratford Jubilee ii. i, I'm as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet. 1816 Scott Old Mort. iv, Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow. 1861 Times 27 Sept. 5/5 Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers,..50 to 65 guineas. |
3. Well-wooded.
| 1701 Lond. Gaz. No. 3724/4 Piggott's Farm..within a Mile of the Thames, being well Timbred, having a new-built House [etc.]. 1847 Disraeli Tancred i. iv, You descend into a well-timbered enclosure. 1904 A. C. Fraser Biogr. Philos. i. 26 The charming well-timbered parks which surround it. |