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bellytimber

bellytimber is the alternative form of belly-timber.

Meaning of belly-timber

Noun

belly-timber (usually uncountable, plural belly-timbers)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, humorous, usually) Food, provender.
    • And tho' knights errant, as some think, / Of old did neither eat nor drink, / Because when thorough deserts vast, / And regions desolate, they past, / Where belly-timber above ground, / Or under, was not to be found …1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriot, under Saint Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, OCLC 43488441; republished as Henry G[eorge] Bohn, editor, Hudibras, by...

Questions about bellytimber

What is bellytimber the alternative form of?
Bellytimber is the alternative form of belly-timber.

Words near bellytimber in the dictionary

  1. bellyloads
  2. bellyring
  3. bellyrings
  4. bellyscraper
  5. bellyscrapers
  6. bellytimber
  7. bellywark
  8. bellywarks
  9. bellywash
  10. Belman
  11. Belmans

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