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halftimbered

halftimbered is the alternative form of half-timbered.

Meaning of half-timbered

Adjective

half-timbered (not comparable)

  1. 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

Questions about halftimbered

What is halftimbered the alternative form of?
Halftimbered is the alternative form of half-timbered.

Words near halftimbered in the dictionary

  1. halfspheres
  2. halfstaff
  3. halfstaffs
  4. halfth
  5. halfths
  6. halftimbered
  7. halftime
  8. halftimes
  9. halftone
  10. halftoned
  11. halftones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halftimbered (page history and authors); half-timbered (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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