Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-tried
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common.
▪ Now isn't the time to spend hours in the kitchen, so use quick, easy and well-tried recipes.
▪ Old and well-tried favourites should never be discarded for newcomers until these have proved themselves.
▪ The impression of well-tried practice, rather than flashes of innovation, characterises the yacht.
▪ There is also sound commercial sense in re-investigating well-tried and harmless remedies that have been passed by.
▪ They know that these well-tried and tested ways work, and do not need a scientist or advertising agency to sell them.
WordNet
Usage examples of "well-tried".
Few words are best: let the Steerings, who are not many, but are men well-tried in war and wisdom abide in the Burg along with the fighting thralls: but let the Burg be broken up and moved from the place, and let its warders wend towards Mid-mark, but warily and without haste, and each night let them make the wain-garth and keep good watch.
Dornin, who engaged to furnish them with a canoe and provisions for the voyage, in exchange for their venerable and well-tried fellow traveller, the old Snake horse.