timbery

Adjective

1. Resembling or consisting of timber.
   • I think I could hardly like his place as well / As my own shelter'd home in the timbery dell, / Where rooks come to build in the high-swaying boughs, / And broadheaded oaks yield a shade for the cows; - 1868, William...
   • During the whole of the previous night Clarry heard her creaking with poignant, uneasy awareness; sleeping on her deck, he had gained a smattering of her timbery language. That night, particularly, it kept him awake as...
   • We entered and were met by the cool musty timbery smell of so many old English churches and sat in a high carved box pew to examine the chancel from the nave. - 1960, Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Altar in the Loft, London:...

   Synonyms: timberish timberlike

2. Deep and resonant.
   • When she remembered, The Old Place seemed to echo still with Papa's drunken, timbery shout, "When I speak to you, then jump, yu' little snotboxes! Else I'll slap the dogwater out of you!" - 1958, Al Dewlen, The Bone...
   • The sheer poetry of the lyrics, the best element in what was acknowledged as a slight and sentimental story, were perfectly suited to the timbery voice of the mature Burton. He had them crying in the aisles. - 1988,...
   • I reached for the door handle to make my escape, but froze when he spoke, his voice so male and timbery and deep it made me shudder. - 2018, Virna DePaul, Bad Boy M. D.: