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ˈship-ˌtimber
Timber for shipbuilding.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. iv. (1495) 606 And of fer is good shyptymbre made. 1408–9tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 224/1 Loke þat schip tymbre haue þe double tyme to drye. 1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 282 To the sawaris of the schip tymir. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. ii. 332 The place being a vast Countrey, and without ship-timber. 1664in Marshall Edwinstow Reg. (1891) 39 Hodgshon..was killed in the wood..with a peece of shipptimber. 1785Phillips Treat. Inland Nav. 17 Decrease of ship-timber..is a very alarming circumstance to a people whose riches and power depend so greatly upon navigation. 1847Smeaton Builder's Man. 43 The larch..makes excellent ship-timber. 1878Browning Poets Croisic i. v, Our log is old ship-timber.
attrib.1854Zoologist XII. 4177 In a ship-timber yard, where he had a yacht building. |