Timber

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
  • n. Wood used as a building material; lumber.
  • n. A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
  • n. Nautical A rib in a ship's frame.
  • n. A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity: That trainee is executive timber.
  • v. To support or frame with timbers: timber a mine shaft.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  • n. Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  • n. A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers".
  • interjection. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
  • v. To fit with timbers.
  • v. To light or land on a tree.
  • v. To make a nest.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
  • n. The crest on a coat of arms.
  • v. To surmount as a timber does.
  • n. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. lumber, 3.
  • n. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
  • n. Fig.: Material for any structure.
  • n. A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
  • n. Woods or forest; wooden land.
  • n. A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
  • v. To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
  • verb-intransitive. To light on a tree.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a nest.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a post made of wood
  • n. a beam made of wood
  • n. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
  • n. land that is covered with trees and shrubs
  • n. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
  • Verb Form
    timbered    timbering    timbers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    post   
    Variant
    timmer    timbre    lumber   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    timberland    forest    wood    lumber    qualifier    rafter    beam   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Kimber    imber    limber    timbre   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wood    plank    log    oak    brick    lumber    stone    iron    bark    furniture