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1. Strongly built or constructed of wood.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 29. As when the Mast of some well timbred hulke Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe.
1836. Dubourg, Violin, ix. (1878), 266–7. Instruments, it appears, 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.
1599. B. 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.
1639. T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., I. iv. (1656), 40. A well timbred Horse.
1668. R. L’Estrange, Vis. Quev. (1708), 269. The Devil of Subornation came next, which was a good-complexion’d, and a well-timber’d Devil.
1697. Collier, 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.
1769. Stratford Jubilee, II. i. I’m as well timbered about the legs and face, as one can meet.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., iv. Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow.
1861. Times, 27 Sept., 5/5. Cart-horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers, for London purposes, 50 to 65 guineas.
3. Well-wooded.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3724/4. Piggott’s Farm … within a Mile of the Thames, being well Timbred, having a new-built House [etc.].
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, I. iv. You descend into a well-timbered enclosure.
1904. A. C. Fraser, Biogr. Philos., i. 26. The Priory, the charming well-timbered parks which surround it, and the well and chapel of St Modan on the hill, were my favourite haunts.
