Yet such timber may have been stripped (7)
I believe the answer is:
dressed
'stripped' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dressed that I've seen before include "curried" , "When you buy them crabs might be" , "Trimmed" , "in fancy packaging" , "Clad" .)