timber toe

A ludicrous term for a wooden leg or a person with a wooden leg. Used also in England for a person wearing clogs. IMG:content-1136.png:[blocks in formation] "The sides of this road, it was said, were not sufficiently timbered."-London Daily Chronicle. *B. In trans.: To take to a tree; to settle or build on a tree. "The one took up in a thicket of brushwood, and the other timbered upon a tree hard by."-L'Estrange. *tim'-ber (2), v . t . [TIMBER (3), s.] To surmount, to decorate, as a crest does a coat of arms. "A purple plume timbers his stately crest." Sylvester. tim-bered, *tim-bred, a. [Eng. timber (1), s.; I. Literally : -ed .] 1. Furnished or constructed with timbers. "A low timbered house where the governor abides all the daytime."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1688). 2. Covered or abounding with growing timber; wooded; as, The country is well timbered . *II. Figuratively : 1. Built, framed, shaped, formed. "I think, Hector was not so clean timbered." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 2. 2. Ma ive; like timber. "His timbered bones all broken rudely rumbled." Spenser: F. Q., V. ii. 50.