Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Built so that the timber framing shows and forms the design as seen from within, as the roofs in many English churches and halls of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Examples
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Tables had been spread in the apartment which lent its name to the whole building — the hall proper — covered with a fine open-timbered roof, whose braces, purlins, and rafters made a brown thicket of oak overhead.
A Changed Man 2006
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Still on general course bearing of 95 1/2 degrees over open-timbered, well-grassed land.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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Forest country, as distinct from scrub, is open-timbered country, with little undergrowth, and no vines or other creepers.
Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson
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The open-timbered ceiling had been decorated by an artist of some fame, who had sought in vain to give to this rich feeding place of the herd the grace of an Italian palace.
Together Robert Herrick 1903
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Tables had been spread in the apartment which lent its name to the whole building -- the hall proper -- covered with a fine open-timbered roof, whose braces, purlins, and rafters made a brown thicket of oak overhead.
A Changed Man; and other tales Thomas Hardy 1884
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When my ancient bard in Glen Rushen took down his thumb-marked, greasy, discoloured poems from the "lath" against the open-timbered ceiling, and read them aloud to me in his broad Manx dialect, with a sing-song of voice and a swinging motion of body, while the loud hailstorm pelted the window pane and the wind whistled round the house, I found they were all startling and almost ghastly appeals to the sinner to shun his evil courses.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892
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