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timber

Pronunciation: /ˈtɪmbə/

The English word “timber” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  2. Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  3. 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.
  4. Material for any structure.
  5. The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  6. A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
  7. The stumps.

interjection

  1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
  2. A cry used when anything is falling over.

verb

  1. To fit with timbers.
  2. To construct, frame, build.
  3. To light or land on a tree.
  4. To make a nest.
  5. To surmount as a timber does.

Etymology

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער…

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