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  1.  Not furnished with timbers; frail.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. iii. 43. Where’s then the sawcy Boate, Whose weake vntimber’d sides but euen now Coriual’d Greatnesse?

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1814.  Sir R. Wilson, Priv. Diary (1861), II. 371. The vessel of state is yet too weak and untimbered to bullet the waves.

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  2.  Unprovided with timber; not wooded.

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1808.  Pike, Sources Mississ., II. App. (1810), 8. The vast tract of untimbered country … between the … Missouri, Mississippi, and the western Ocean.

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1828–32.  Webster, s.v., Untimbered land.

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