Definition of "half-timber" [half-timber]

• In ship-building, one of the timbers in the cant-bodies which correspond to the lower futtocks in the square body. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They walked through a narrow set of winding lanes, with half-timber houses leaning over them."
• "In 1926 the Burfrey Realty Corporation, subdivided and built sixty-one "high-class half-timber English homes of individual design""
• "Celle was a lot like Hann Münden - tons of half-timber houses with chain stores on the first level."