half-timbered
/ˌhæf ˈtɪmbɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub, etc. (the infill), especially if the timber frame is visible on the outside of the building.
Example Sentences
- "Having ideally supposed that the County Town must be superior to all others in point of beauty and extent, we were disappointed to find it a small place, consisting of about a hundred half-timbered houses forming a miserable street."
- "The construction here described, is exactly similar to that followed in the old half timbered houses of England."
- "Some of the streets are very narrow, with old half timbered houses on each side; Crown-street is a specimen of the early style of its street architecture."
- "The Tullivers had lived on this spot for generations, and he had sat listening on a low stool on winter evenings while his father talked of the old half-timbered mill that had been there before the last great floods which damaged it so that his grandfather pulled it down and built the new one."
- "The old houses, however, were left until the great fire of 1666 swept them away: it was these charming half-timbered dwellings which afforded the chief fuel for that huge bonfire."
- "Modeled upon a style popular in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, the many-gabled, half-timbered house still stands, testimony to the skill of its builder."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌhæf ˈtɪmbɚd/
- British English: /ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd/