“well、timbered”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

well-timbered

释义

well-ˈtimbered, ppl. a.
1. Strongly built or constructed of wood.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 29 As when the Mast of some well timbred hulke Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe.1852Dubourg Violin (ed. 4) 344 Instruments..should be sufficiently well-timbered; their durability is much affected when they are finished off too weak in wood.
2. Having a good structure or constitution; well-framed, well-built. Chiefly of persons and animals.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Ind. iii, A well-timberde fellow, hee woulde ha' made a good columne and he had been thought on when the house was a building.1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. i. iv. (1656) 40 A well timbred Horse.1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 269 The Devil of Subornation came next, which was a good-complexion'd, and a well-timber'd Devil.1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. 76 Let them [sc. the ‘animal spirits’] be as Sleek and well Timber'd, as those Atoms Epicurus made his Soul of.1769Stratford Jubilee ii. i, I'm as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet.1816Scott Old Mort. iv, Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow.1861Times 27 Sept. 5/5 Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers,..50 to 65 guineas.
3. Well-wooded.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3724/4 Piggott's Farm..within a Mile of the Thames, being well Timbred, having a new-built House [etc.].1847Disraeli Tancred i. iv, You descend into a well-timbered enclosure.1904A. C. Fraser Biogr. Philos. i. 26 The charming well-timbered parks which surround it.

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