[f. TIMBRE sb.2] trans. To furnish or adorn with a crest; to surmount as a crest. Hence Timbred ppl. a., crested; Timbring vbl. sb.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. ii. 100. Eik his tymbret helm wyth crestis two.
1606. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. III. Magnificence, 1034. Loe, the Cock … A purple Plume timbers his stately Crest.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, VI. v. 264. In some Countries,… it is not permitted to persons inferior to the degree of a Knight, to Timber their Armes, that is to say, to adorne them with Helme, Mantle, Crest, &c. Ibid., 267. Rodolph Duke of Lorraigne … was the first that bare his Armes Tymbered.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, IV. vi. (Roxb.), 320/1. Concerning the coate and Tymbreing in the scale thereof.
1894. Woodward, Eccles. Heraldry, 255. The others [helmets] were timbred with the Crest of the See of Mainz.
