“half、timber”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

half-timber

释义

ˈhalf-ˌtimber, n. and a.
A. n. Ship-building. (See quot.)
1847in Craig.1849–50Weale Dict. Terms, Half-timbers, in ship-building, those timbers in the cant bodies which are answerable to the lower futtocks in the square body.
B. adj.
1. Built half of timber.
1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Half timber building, a structure formed of studding, with sills, lintels, struts and braces, sometimes filled in with brickwork and plastered over on both sides.1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. i. 10 Half-timber houses..of which the foundations and the ground-floors only are of stone, and the upper part of wood.
2. Made of timber split in half.
1874J. H. Collins Metal Mining 42 Timbered with half-timber sets.Ibid. 80 In the middle of these half-timber bearers the uprights..are morticed.
Hence half-timbered a. = B 1.
a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xxiv. 80 At the porch of an old half-timbered cottage.1893K. L. Bates Eng. Relig. Drama 225 The many-gabled, half-timbered edifice of one of Edward VI's Free Grammar Schools.

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