timber

Meanings

Noun

• Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• 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.
• Material for any structure.
• The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• 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.
• Misspelling of timbre

Interjection

• Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Verb

• To fit with timbers.
• To construct, frame, build.
• To light or land on a tree.
• To make a nest.
• To surmount as a timber does.

Related

Similar words

• timberland, forest
• lumber , wood
• beam, rafter

Narrower meaning words

• crosstree

Origin

• From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- ("build, house") (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm). Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 ("to build"), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος.