timbery

Adjective

timbery (comparative more timbery, superlative most timbery)

1. Resembling or consisting of timber.
   • I think I could hardly like his place as well / As my own shelter'd home in the timbery dell, / Where rooks come to build in the high-swaying boughs, / And broadheaded oaks yield a shade for the cows;1868, William Barnes, “Hill and Dell”, in Poems of Rural Life in Common English, London: Macmillan and Co., pages 159–160
   • During the whole of the previous night Clarry heard her creaking with poignant, uneasy awareness; sleeping on her deck, he had gained a smattering of her timbery language. That night, particularly, it kept him awake as he listened to her.1957, Simon Kent [pseudonym; Max Catto], Ferry to Hongkong, London: Hutchinson, page 119

   Synonyms:

   timberish, timberlike

2. (figuratively) Deep and resonant.
   • When she remembered, The Old Place seemed to echo still with Papa's drunken, timbery shout, "When I speak to you, then jump, yu' little snotboxes! Else I'll slap the dogwater out of you!"1958, Al Dewlen, The Bone Pickers, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, O.N.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 133
   • The sheer poetry of the lyrics, the best element in what was acknowledged as a slight and sentimental story, were perfectly suited to the timbery voice of the mature Burton. He had them crying in the aisles.1988, Graham Jenkins, Barry Turner, Richard Burton, My Brother, London: Michael Joseph Ltd, →ISBN, page 226