half-timber
half-timber is the alternative form of half-timbered.
Meaning of half-timbered
Adjective
half-timbered (not comparable)
- 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.1800, J[ohn] Evans, “Letter II”, in A Tour through Part of North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at Other Times; […], London: […] J. White, […], →OCLC, page 26
- Synonyms:
- half-timber
Verb
half-timber (third-person singular simple present half-timbers, present participle half-timbering, simple past and past participle half-timbered)
- To construct in the half-timbered style.
Forms of half-timber
| third-person singular present | half-timbers |
|---|---|
| present participle | half-timbering |
| past participle | half-timbered |
| past | half-timbered |
Questions about half-timber
- What does half-timber mean?
- Half-timber means to construct in the half-timbered style.
- What is half-timber the alternative form of?
- Half-timber is the alternative form of half-timbered.
- What part of speech is half-timber?
- Half-timber is a verb.
- What is the past tense of half-timber?
- The past tense of half-timber is half-timbered.
Words near half-timber in the dictionary
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