n. In cricket, the stumps; the wickets: usually in the plural.n. In mining, a local name for a braced frame forming the roof and side-supports of a gallery or drilt.To furnish (a tunnel, drift, gallery, or other excavation) with braced frames of logs or squared timbers which support the roof and resist the caving in or crushing at the sides.n. Wood suitable for building houses or ships, or for use in carpentry, joinery, etc.; trees cut down and squared or capable of being squared and cut into beams, rafters, planks, boards, etc.n. Growing trees, yielding wood suitable for constructive uses; trees generally; woods. See timber-tree.n. In British law, the kind of tree which a tenant for life may not cut; in general, oak, ash, and elm of the age of twenty years and upward, unless so old as not to have a reasonable quantity of useful wood in them, the limit being, according to some authorities, enough to make a good post.n. Stuff; material.n. A single piece of wood, either suitable for use in some construction or already in such use; a beam, either by itself or forming a member of any structure: as, the timbers of a house or of a bridge.n. Nautical, one of the curving pieces of wood branching upward from the keel of a vessel, forming the ribs.n. The wooden part of something, as the beam or handle of a spear.n. The stocks.Constructed of timber; made of wood.To build; make a nest.To furnish with timber. See timbered.n. A certain number or tale of skins, being forty of marten, ermine, sable, and the like, and one hundred and twenty of others.n. In heraldry, originally, the crest; hence, in modern heraldry, the helmet, miter, coronet, etc., when placed over the arms in a complete achievement.To surmount and decorate, as a crest does a coat of arms.