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timber


noun

  1. the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
  2. growing trees themselves.
  3. wooded land.
  4. wood, especially when suitable or adapted for various building purposes.
  5. a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like: A timber fell from the roof.
  6. Nautical. (in a ship’s frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.
  7. personal character or quality: He’s being talked up as presidential timber.
  8. Sports. a wooden hurdle, as a gate or fence, over which a horse must jump in equestrian sports.

verb (used with object)

  1. to furnish with timber.
  2. to support with timber.

verb (used without object)

  1. to fell timber, especially as an occupation.

interjection

  1. a lumberjack’s call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground.

noun

    1. wood, esp when regarded as a construction materialUsual US and Canadian word: lumber
    2. (as modifier)a timber cottage
    1. trees collectively
    2. mainly USwoodland
  1. a piece of wood used in a structure
  2. nautical a frame in a wooden vessel
  3. potential material, for a post, rank, etche is managerial timber

verb

  1. (tr) to provide with timbers

interjection

  1. a lumberjack’s shouted warning when a tree is about to fall

n.Old English timber “building, structure,” later “building material, trees suitable for building,” and “wood in general,” from Proto-Germanic *temran (cf. Old Frisian timber “wood, building,” Old High German zimbar “timber, wooden dwelling, room,” Old Norse timbr “timber,” German Zimmer “room”), from PIE *demrom-, from root *dem-/*dom- “build” (source of Greek domos, Latin domus; see domestic (adj.)). The related Old English verb timbran, timbrian was the chief word for “to build” (cf. Dutch timmeren, German zimmern). As a call of warning when a cut tree is about to fall, it is attested from 1912 in Canadian English. Timbers in the nautical slang sense (see shiver (n.)) is from the specialized meaning “pieces of wood composing the frames of a ship’s hull” (1748).

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