Definitions for half-timbered

half-timbered half-tim·bered

Spelling: [haf-tim-berd, hahf-]
IPA: /ˈhæfˈtɪm bərd, ˈhɑf-/

Half-Timbered is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 1501 anagrams from letters in half-timbered (-abdeefhilmrt).

Definitions for half-timbered

adjective

  1. (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.

Origin of half-timbered

First recorded in 1840-50

Examples for half-timbered

The new Residency, which was nearly finished, and was built in the old English half-timbered style, was intact.

The village of Swinehurst is a straggling line of half-timbered houses of the early English pattern.

Some of these have overhanging upper stories to them, are half-timbered or yellow-washed.

The house is half-timbered; from the height above it looks old and peaceful amid its immemorial trees.

There is preserved here the Old Hall, a beautiful example of half-timbered architecture.

The rich Angevin bourgeoisie built these half-timbered houses, which are somewhat like those that one sees so often in Normandy.

The half-timbered houses and cottages introduce another pleasant feature into the landscape.

Here in Henley Street, in a half-timbered house recently carefully restored, Shakespeare was born.

Botfield Hall was a large, half-timbered farmhouse, with a gabled roof, part of which was made of thatch and the rest of tiles.

The attic gables, etc., would be half-timbered in oak, and the roof covered with red Fareham tiles laid on felt.

Word Value for half-timbered
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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