half-timber
bərd, ˈhɑf- adjective
(of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
Also, half-tim·ber.
Origin:
1840–50
1840–50
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| half-timbered or half-timber | |
| —adj | |
| (of a building, wall, etc) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture | |
| half-timber or half-timber | |
| —adj | |
| half-'timbering or half-timber | |
| —n | |
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Half-timber
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| half-timbered or half-timber | |
| —adj | |
| (of a building, wall, etc) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture | |
| half-timber or half-timber | |
| —adj | |
| half-'timbering or half-timber | |
| —n | |
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