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timber definition

tim·ber (tim′bər)

noun

    1. a building
    2. building material
  2. wood suitable for building houses, ships, etc., whether cut or still in the form of trees
  3. a large, heavy, dressed piece of wood used in building; beam
  4. Brit. lumber ()
  5. trees or forests collectively
  6. personal quality or character a man of his timber
  7. Shipbuilding a wooden rib

Etymology: ME < OE, akin to Ger zimmer, room (< OHG zimbar, wooden structure) < IE base *dem-, *dema-, to join together, build > L domus, house

transitive verb

to provide, build, or prop up with timbers

intransitive verb

to work at cutting down timber

adjective

of or for timber

interjection

used in a forest to signify that a cut tree is about to fall: a lumberman's warning shout

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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