timber

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10
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12
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6
Pronunciation
/ˈtɪmbə/
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/ˈtɪmbə/ · [ˈtɪˑmˌbəː] · /ˈtɪmbɚ/ · [ˈtɪˑmˌbɚː]

Definition of timber

14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
    “collect timber”
    “cut down timber”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
    “collect timber”
    “cut down timber”
  2. (US, uncountable)Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  3. (countable)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.
    “the timbers of a ship”
  4. (countable, uncountable)Material for any structure.
  5. (countable, informal, uncountable)The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)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. (countable, slang, uncountable)The stumps.

intj

  1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
    “From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"”
  2. By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
    “The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"”

verb

  1. (transitive)To fit with timbers.
    “timbering a roof”
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To construct, frame, build.
    “For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.”
  3. (intransitive)To light or land on a tree.
  4. (obsolete)To make a nest.
  5. (transitive)To surmount as a timber does.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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…

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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 (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home, house”), Czech dům (“house”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene dom (“home, house”), Serbo-Croatian до̑м, dȏm (“home, house”), Ukrainian дім (dim, “home, house; building”), Armenian տուն (tun, “home, house; family, household”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬨 (dam, “house”), Sanskrit दम् (dam, “house”), दम (dama, “home”).

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