timbern.¹

Brit.

/ˈtɪmbə/, U.S.

/ˈtɪmbər/

Forms: α. Old English– timber; Middle English timbir, Middle English–1600s timbre, Middle English timbur (1600s timberr), Middle English–1600s tymber, Middle English–1500s tymbre, Middle English tymbyr, tymbir(e, Middle English–1500s tymbur, ( tembre). β. Scottish and northern dialectMiddle English tymyr(e, Middle English tymmir, tymmyr(e, ( temir, temyr), Middle English–1800s tymmer, 1500s tymer, tymir, ( temmer), 1700s–1800s timmer.

Etymology: Old English timber = Old Frisian timber, Old Saxon timbar (Dutch dialect timmer), Old High German zimbar (Middle High German zimber, German zimmer room), Old Norse timbr timber (Swedish timmer, Danish tømmer), Gothic *timr (compare timr-jan to build, timr-ja builder, etc.) < Old Germanic *tim-ra^m < *tem-ro^m < Indo-European *dem-ro^m, < ablaut series *dem: *dom: *dm, to build: compare Greek δέμειν to build, δόμος, Latin domus house.

†1.

a. A building, structure, edifice, house. Also figurative. Obsolete (? only Old English.)

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c825 Vesp. Psalter ci. 8 Swe swe spearwa se anga in timbre [L. unicus in aedificio].

c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxviii. 6 Sien swe swe heg timbra [L. faenum aedificiorum].

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvii.] 204 Þa næglas..þe heo mid þæm to þæm timbre [L. aedificio] gefæstnad wæs.

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iii. 262 Þæt..þa lifigendan stanas þære cirican of eorðlicum seþlum to þæm heofonlican timbre gebær.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xiii. 1 gesih hulco stanas & hulig timber [Ags. Gosp. hwylce getimbrunga, L. quales structuræ].

OE Genesis 135 Þa seo tid gewat ofer timber [MS. tiber] sceacan middangeardes.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 198 Sio [liver] is blodes timber, & blodes hus & fostor.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3692 Þey logged hem, & tymber teld [Petyt MS. timbred teld = constructed tents (which is prob. the correct reading)].

†b. The process of building. Obsolete (only Old English.)

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c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 178 On .vi. nihtne monan..he is..god circan on to timbrane and eac scipes timber on to anginnanne.

†2. Building material generally; material for the construction of houses, ships, etc., or (in extended sense) of any manufactured article; the matter or substance of which anything is built up or composed; matter, material, stuff. Obsolete. Cf. belly-timber n., flesh-timber (flesh n. Compounds 2).In early use including 3; in later use probably figurative from it.

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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material

timbera900

stuff1442

stone and mortar1534

bricks and mortar1576

building-material1833

fabric1849

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood

timbera900

timber-work1390

timber-wood1480

timbering1486

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substance or being

being1340

substance1340

essencea1398

materialitya1529

stuff1587

subject1590

timber1612

primary substance1774

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xvi. [xxii.] 224 Þætte ne meahten godo beon, þa ðe monna hondum geworhte wæron of eorðlicum timbre, oðþe of treom, oðþe of stanum.

a1000 Confess. Ecgberti in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) Addit. 16 II. 234 Ne sceal cyrcean timber [L. ligna ecclesiæ] to ænigum oðrum weorce.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 333, l. 334 Þis wright..Fra al oþer, sundri and sere, For þai most oþer timber take, Bot he þis self can timber make.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 18 Such dispositions are..the fittest timber to make great Politiques of.

1840 M. F. Shepherd in Life of Adam Clarke viii. 261 There is much sound timber in these sermons.

a. spec. Wood used for the building of houses, ships, etc., or for the use of the carpenter, joiner, or other artisan; wood in general as a material; esp. after it has been suitably trimmed and squared into logs, or further adapted to constructive uses.A restricted use of sense 2, and in early quots. often not distinguishable from it.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun]

treec890

woodc897

timbera1100

mattera1382

stuff1544

lignum1826

a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 On wintra erian and in miclum gefyrstum timber cleofan.

c1200 Vices & Virtues 27 And ðe wrihte his timber to keruen after ðare mone.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11442 Timber me lete biwinnen. and þat beord bi-ginnen.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 1724 Now wat sir noe quat wark to do And hent timber þat fel þar-to.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiv. ii Ararat is þe hyȝest hill of Armenia;..and ȝit to þis day þe tymber of þe schip is sene in þe mounteyne.

1466 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 23 Mak the ruiffes of guid tymmer and theik thame with sclaitt.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 29 Y^e tymmer of y^e larche tre..is very..profitable for bildyng.

a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 4 Their Boats of Timber without any Iron in them.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 338 Vessels..chiefly imploy'd in carrying Timber, Salt,..and other Commodities.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 84 The timber of the Beam Tree (Pyrus Aria) is invaluable for axletrees.

1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) vii. 92 When the wood of a stem or branch of any species of plant attains to the dimensions of 24 inches in circumference, or upwards of eight inches in diameter, it is termed timber.

b. Wood as a substance, or as the material of small utensils or parts of them. Now dialect.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood as a substance

timber1530

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. xii. sig. d2^v A cup of tymber or metall.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 Their Arrowes finely pair'd, for Timber, and for Feather.

1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 503 For setting up a strip of timber on my window, 6d.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 84/2 The Wood, or Timberr, is between the Sap and Heart.

1793 T. Scott Poems 364 A breast o' timmer an' a heart o' stane.

1834 A. Smart Rambling Rhymes 135 (E.D.D.) Her wheels were made o' timmer.

a. Applied to the wood of growing trees capable of being used for structural purposes; hence collectively to the trees themselves. Rarely in plural.standing timber: see standing adj. 10. tall timber: see tall adj. 7e.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > timber-tree > collectively

timberc893

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. vi. §2 Æfter siextegum daga þæs þe ðæt timber [L. arbores] acorfen wæs.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 11808 A kanker..the werm..That ffreteth the herte off a tre, And..Doth to tymber gret damage.

1566 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1584. 209/1 Habere lie wattillis et lie fallin tymmer de silva de Cleue.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 15 The Timber of the Countrey growes straight, and tall.

1718 Free-thinker No. 59. 2 A naked Ground, blest only with a small Group of Timber.

1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 22 A rough estimate of the value of the timbers..growing at that time in the district of The Holt.

1841 W. Robinson Descr. Acct. Asam 41 Another large and elegant timber indigenous to the forests of Assam, is the Cedrela Toona.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 158 We continued our journey..through a forest of grand timber.

b. spec. in English Law, Trees growing upon land, and forming part of the freehold inheritance: embracing generally the oak, ash, and elm, of the age of twenty years or more; in particular districts, by local custom, including other trees, with various limitations as to age.As to the legal bearing of this, see quots. 1766, 1818.

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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > something on surface of land > timber

timber1766

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xviii. §6. 281 Timber also is part of the inheritance. Such are oak, ash, and elm in all places: and in some particular countries, by local custom, where other trees are generally used for building, they are thereupon considered as timber; and to cut down such trees, or top them, or do any other act whereby the timber may decay, is waste.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 131 By the custom of some countries, certain trees, not usually considered as timber, are deemed to be such, being there used for building... And all the Justices at Serjeants' Inn were of opinion that in the county of York birch trees were timber, and belonged to the inheritance; therefore they could not be taken by the tenant for life.

1891 Daily News 19 Jan. 5/4 By the custom of the county of Buckingham beech trees are timber.

c. int. The warning call of the feller when a tree is about to fall.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [interjection] > warning call during felling

timber1912

1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. (ed. 2) 47 Timber-r-r! the long-drawn melodious warning call of the sawyers in a lumber camp when a tree is about to fall.

1935 ‘L. Ford’ Burn Forever 56 There was a stentorian shout: ‘Timber!!’

1968 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Dec. 2/1 The sharp ring of Father's axe echoed in the icy air, and we cried ‘timber’ as our tree fell.

a. transferred. Applied to any object familiar to the speaker, composed wholly or chiefly of wood, as †a spear-shaft; †a bowl; a ship; the stocks (slang); wooden gates and fences (Hunting slang); a wicket (Cricket slang); an arrow (rare); small timber, lucifer matches (street slang).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > shaft of spear

spear-shafta900

ashOE

shaftc1000

truncheon13..

tree?a1366

timberc1400

sting?a1500

spear-staff1530

steal1530

rodc1540

stale1553

stave1873

staff-

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment

spear of peacea1400

timberc1400

tilting-staff1602

Saracen1637

tilt-staff1651

tilting armour1819

tilting-helmet1846

tilting-lance1863

tilting spear-

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > type of fence

timber1791

rasper1812

stopper1832

jump1858

oxer1859

flying fence1883

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket

wicket1662

stick1829

timber1840

gate1851

castle1959

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks

stocksc1325

pilloryc1330

stocka1382

gofe1489

stretchneck1543

harmans1567

foot trap1585

pigeonholes1592

jougs1596

berlina1607

halsfang1607

gorget1635

cippusa1637

nutcrackers1648

catasta1664

wooden cravat1676

the wooden ruff1677

neck stock1681

wooden casement1685

timber-stairsc1750

Norway neckcloth1785

law-neck-cloth1789

stoop1795

timber1851–4

nerve1854

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > wooden

timber1871

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun]

streale?680

floc893

arrowOE

pileOE

bolta1000

flanea1000

archer1297

shaftc1400

grey-goose wing1566

dorlach1575

goose-wing1630

shaftment1634

fate1700

timberc1879

c1400 Rowland & O. 455 Theyre Ioynynge was so harde that tyde That theyre timbir in sondire gan ryde.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 117 [They] mette to-geder on the sheldis, so that the horse ne myght not passe ferther till the tymbres were broken.

a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2349 [I pray] that thou woldist my son lere, Hys Tymber ffor to asay.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii Come, turn the timmer to laird Patie's health.

1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vi. 26 The leaps large and frequent, and a great deal of timber to get over.

1840 Bell's Life in London 2 Aug. 2/2 Morewood joined Morrier, who at length received a ‘Winchester screw’, which shattered his timber.

1851–4 D. Jerrold C. Snub in Men of Char. i The squire..gives me over to the beadle, who claps me here in the timber.

1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 17 They..would grind over..the March Gibbon double timber as..undauntedly as over the accommodating Bullingdon hurdles.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 3 Nor yet a timber o'er the waves alertly flew.

1876 in Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) 332 Appleby..dislodged Webbe's timbers by his second ball in the first over.

c1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 180 Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber'll hit The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll's dóne.

b. spec. A wooden leg: cf. timber-toe n. at Compounds 2; hence transferred a leg. slang.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun]

shanka900

legc1300

grainsa1400

limbc1400

foot?a1425

stumpa1500

pin?1515

pestlea1529

boughc1550

stamp1567

understander1583

pile1584

supporters1601

walker?1611

trestle1612

fetlock1645

pedestal1695

drumstick1770

gam1785

timber1807

tram1808–18

fork1812

prop1817

nethers1822

forkals1828

understanding1828

stick1830

nether person1835

locomotive1836

nether man1846

underpinning1848

bender1849

Scotch peg1857

Scotch1859

under-pinner1859

stem1860

Coryate's compasses1864

peg1891

wheel1927

shaft1935

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > parts of

flew1575

timber1807

1807 J. Ruickbie Way-side Cottager 9 in Eng. Dial. Dict.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 35 Boys, miss my pegs..and hit my legs, My timbers well can stand your gentle taps.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) I. 230 [The hounds] have a strong family likeness in the depth of their girth..and the quality of the timber on which they stand.

6. A single beam or piece of wood forming or capable of forming part of any structure. Also collectively in plural.

a. gen.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > roughly squared beam

beam978

balka1400

needle1428

joist1487

sill1488

rafter1553

timbera1575

bat1577

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 288 The treasure that was made of the timbers, bells, and leads, and the ornaments of the church.

1623 W. Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §15 The massy timber [a summer] shivered in two, as suddenly as the other knapped asunder.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §85 To fasten the outside Timbers.

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 8 The original timbers, after this immense lapse of time, are still sound internally.

1894 Labour Comm. in Parl. Papers XXXVIII. Pair of Timber, two timbers placed against the sides of the tunnels in a mine at acute angles with the bottom. They support not only these sides but also another timber, which upholds the roof.

b. plural. spec. Nautical. The pieces of wood composing the ribs, bends, or frames of a ship's hull: see frame n. 5f.Often preceded by a qualifying word, as cant-, compass-, cross-, filling-, floor-, futtock-, head-, knee-, knuckle-, rising-, side-, square-, stern-, top-timbers: see these words.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull

timber1748

strongback1853

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten.

1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 29 Her timbers yet are sound.

1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 185 We dragged our barges over the neck of land, but not without straining their timbers.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 29 All the ribs underneath these [floor-boards] are called floor timbers, the rest simply timbers.

1885 Sir J. C. Mathew in Law Times Rep. 52 265/1 Her timbers, no doubt, held together, but she was no longer a ship.

figurative.1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxvii. 279 My timbers are now a little crazy, d'ye see; and God knows if I shall keep afloat till such time as I see thee again.1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) xiii. 132 I, whose timbers were somewhat strained, laboured after him.

c. Nautical slang, in exclamations, as my timbers!, shiver my timbers! (see shiver v.¹).

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1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs I. 153 My timbers, what lingo he'd coil and belay.

7. figurative. Bodily structure, frame, build. In later use, the ‘stuff’ of which a person is made; personal quality or character; preceded by a qualifying word: suitable quality or character for the specified office, etc. Cf. material adj. 3. Chiefly U.S.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [noun]

featurec1325

making1340

staturec1380

statea1387

bonea1400

figurec1400

makec1425

corpulence1477

corsage1481

makdom1488

mouldc1550

corporature1555

frame1566

dimension1600

limit1608

set1611

timber1612

compact1646

taille1663

fabric1695

moulding1815

physique1826

tournure1827

build1832

form1849

body type1866

body build1907

somatotype1940

size1985

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > qualities, stuff

conditionsc1374

allaya1456

mettle?1520

stuff1557

alloy1594

wood1594

intrinsical1655

cast1711

calibre1808

timber1906

1612 G. Paule Life Whitgift §138. 93 For his small timber, he was of a good quicke strength, straight and well shaped.

1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D3^v The twelue Companies of London cannot match him, timber for timber.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 265 Canute..doubting to adventure his body of small Timber, against a man of Iron sides.

1822 C. Lamb Some Old Actors in Elia 1st Ser. He was not altogether of that timber out of which cathedral seats and sounding-boards are hewed.

1892 Chicago Tribune 4 Apr. 4/5 Senator Cullom of Illinois is better Presidential timber than was generally supposed.

1906 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 411 His wish to be courteous to men of Cardinal Rampolla's timber.

1914 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/1 He is everlastingly..N.G. as gubernatorial timber.

1954 Sat. Evening Post 6 Nov. 64/4 CIA recruits many employees from our colleges and universities through a process beginning even before individual students realize that they are being singled out as possible CIA timber.

1967 R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill II. vi. 193 His parliamentary stature had grown and he had proved that he was of Cabinet timber.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 661/2 My contention that he [sc. J. F. Kennedy] was potential Presidential timber.

a. attributive or adj. Made or consisting of wood; wooden. (See also Compounds 1, Compounds 2.)

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood

treenc1000

stockya1400

treea1400

timberedc1412

timber?1530

wooden1538

woodya1540

ligneal1599

ligneous1812

carpentered1837

betimbered1847

wooden-built1860

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Fvi The said duke protectour..toke the lorde Hastynges..and..caused his hede to be smytten of vpon a tymber log within the Towre.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxii. B Then was sene the sege of the tymbre house.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxiii^v The Spaniardes with theyr ordenaunce beate downe a timber walle.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cassandra The treason of the tymber horse at the siege of Troye.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 23 The making of Timber partitions.

1700 R. Sinclair in Leisure Hour (1883) 205/2 Timber cups and dishes.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 92 A timber mallet wrought by the hand was all they had..to break the clods.

1890 J. Service Thir Notandums viii. 48 The leg will be stiff for mony a day to come, and like a timmer ane for vera thrawnness.

b. Scottish dialect. Unmusical; having no musical ear; dull, ‘wooden’; unimpressionable.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] > not

unmusical1603

earless1605

mistuned1755

deaf1785

timber1815

untunable1851

rhythm-deaf1871

tone-deaf1894

amusical1906

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 36 He was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him.

1874 G. Outram in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets (1881) 2nd Ser. 218 The timmer limmer daurs the knife To settle her annuity.

1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred vi. 46 I regretted my own timbre tones. But I must confess to being enchanted while Louisa sang.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona vii. 75 You have the finest timber face.

1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 58/1 If I were not, so far as music goes, as timber as the table there.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive (often two words, as in sense 8), with the sense ‘of or for timber’.

timber-ash n.

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1707Timber Ash [see timber-oak n.].

timber-bar n.

timber-beam n.

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1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion v. 44 In the striking of a timber-beam at one end, the motion..may become sensible at the other.

timber-boom n.

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1908 Chambers's Jrnl. May 352/1 To haul the bigger logs to the railroad or timber-boom.

timber-broker n.

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1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 23 An Observation of an Experienced Timber Broker.

timber-butt n. (see butt n.⁶).

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1608 T. Cocks Diary (1901) 32 Payde..for bringinge home my two tymber butts.

timber-claim n.

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1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 4 June Timber claims..may be purchased on better terms than in any place of equal distance from Lawrence.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 124 He took up a ‘homestead’ and a ‘timber-claim’ with the..intention of raising cattle and a family.

timber colour n.

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1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 84 Frames..gilded, the ground a Timber colour.

timber-crib n. (see crib n. 14).

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1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 11 A timber-crib which was going to run a rapid.

timber-culture n.

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1887 Daily News 3 Nov. 5/4 Buying under the homestead and timber-culture laws.

timber elm n.

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1707Timber Elm [see timber-oak n.].

timber-factor n.

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1731 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 502/2 James Jelly..Timber-Factor and Wharfinger.

timber forest n.

timber growth n.

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1968 Ceiba XIV. 29 (heading) Forecasting timber growth by the point center extension modification of the Bitterlich system.

timber harvest n.

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1969 U.S. Forest Service Resource Bull. No. pnw30 (title) 1968 Washington timber harvest.

† timber-haw n. Obsolete (see haw n.¹).

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1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 387 For cariage of xxxj lodes of lome..in to the tembre haw.

1457 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f/ xxv/2 Wharfes kranes tymbre hawes.

timber-house n.

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1535Tymbre house [see sense 8a].

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 29 Dec. (1855) 149 Women's schoes, tymber heilled, of the best sort.

1723 B. Mandeville Search Nature of Society in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 419 If..Ships should always have fine Weather,..Ships would last as long as Timber-Houses.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xii. 170 A roomy timber house, beautifully thatched with palm.

timber jinker n. Australian (see jinker n.²).

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1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 1 Along the tracks heavy timber-jinkers groaned on their way to the Ironbark Sawmill.

1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 57/2 (advt.) Quality trucks at lowest prices..also semi trailers, semi tippers, low-loaders, timber jinkers, tippers.

timber-land n.

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1654 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1883) II. 55 Howses fence or gardens, Tymber Lands broaken & vnbroaken.

1804 P. Gass Jrnl. 26 Aug. (1807) ii. 31 We..passed some timber land on the south side.

1871 Rep. Indian Affairs (1872) 301 Funds were furnished to clear up timber-lands for their use.

1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 15 Ownership of timberlands by the forest products industry..grew by almost 10 million acres in the past twenty-five years.

timber-log n.

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?1530Tymber log [see sense 8a].

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie viii. 44 That there is no more zeal in vs than in a timberlogge.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. i. 32 What are become of those two Timber-loggs that he us'd to wear for Leggs?

timber management n.

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1969 U.S. Forest Service Research Paper No. so 40. 1 (title) 29 years of selection timber management on the Crossett Experimental Forest.

timber-market n.

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1477 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 141 The wod and tymmer merket.

1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 39 This model could be implemented empirically on a data set for which information on both the land and timber markets were available.

timber-mell n. (see mell n.¹).

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1720 A. Ramsay Poems 351 Hercules, wi's Timber Mell, Plays rap upo' the Yates of Hell.

timber-merchant n.

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c1689 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 206 John Martyr, timber merchant.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 70 He lived some time as a clerk to a timber-merchant.

1946 A. R. M. Lower Colony to Nation 209 The timber merchants..bought square timber and deals..to ship them to England.

timber-mill n.

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1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 702/2 Tasmania prides itself on its..giant timber-mills.

timber-monger n.

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1275 Memoranda, K.R. 2 & 3 Edw. I, 11 b (P.R.O.) Recognicio Iohannis le Tymbermongere.

timber-nail n.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tymber nayle, impago.

timber-oak n.

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1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 106 In the above Scheme, the first Column is the Names of the Fields,..the third the number of Timber Oaks, the fourth the Timber Ash, the fifth the Timber Elms.

timber-patch n.

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1886 P. G. Ebbutt Emigrant Life Kansas 96 We could not..get down to our timber patch.

timber-plank n.

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1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. vi. 14 Make thee an arke of timber planke.

timber-post n.

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a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iv. 213 Piles and Timberposts are set in the waters.

timber preservation n.

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1966 Encycl. N.Z. I. 724/1 As building authorities have rightly been unwilling to accept this non-durable sap-timber, a sizable timber preservation industry has grown up.

timber production n.

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1968 Wisconsin Agric. Exper. Sta. Research Bull. No. 272. 1 (heading) Mycorrhizae: their role in tree nutrition and timber production.

timber-raft n.

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1818 F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xiii. 118 The frequent sail, or heavy timber-raft, ‘floating many a rood’.

1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) v. 225 The large timber rafts which descend the St. Lawrence.

timber-shade n.

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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §936 Plaine Champaignes..Or else Timber-Shades, as in Forrests.

timber-ship n.

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1704 London Gaz. No. 4005/2 Her Majesty's Ship the Shoreham, having under her Convoy 4 Timber Ships.

timber-sled n.

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1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. ii. 71 The snow affords a road..where the timber-sled, with its ponderous log, runs glibly down to the creek.

timber-slide n.

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1836 Bytown (Ottawa) Gaz. 21 July 2/5 This improvement with many others (amongst the rest a timber slide at the Chats) the country owes to..George Buchannan.

1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 287 The timber-slides, by which the lumber from the upper river passes down..into the navigable water below.

timber-trade n.

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1732 in Cal. of State Papers Colonial Series, Amer. & W. Indies 1732 (1939) XXXIX. 243 Abundance of saw-mills are erecting for the timber trade.

1855 A. Morris Canada iv. 64 A new branch of the timber trade has been established during the present year.

timber truck n.

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1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt iii. 23 These pipes..afforded excellent substitutes for bridges, wherever it was necessary for a road to be made for the timber-trucks.

1976 M. Birmingham Heat of Sun vi. 75 The timber trucks—great articulated monsters each carrying thirty-odd tons of timber, usually in the form of three huge logs.

timber value n.

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1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 9/2 What bearing has the presence, or the increase, of woodpeckers upon the problem of timber-values?

1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 33 Some timber values must be foregone to obtain additional nontimber values.

timber-wain n.

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1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad iv. 59 The creaking timber-wain.

timber-wright n.

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c1450 Cov. Myst. xv. 6 I..am a pore tymbre wryht [MS. wryth], born of the blood of Davyd.

b. Objective.

(a)

timber-borer n.

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1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. viii. 235 The most extensive family..of timber-borers are the capricorn beetles.

timber-cutter n.

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1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 30 Fires..occasioned by the hunters and timber-cutters, who burn the woods to clear them of under-wood.

timber-devourer n.

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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 430 In the stag-beetle, and some other timber-devourers.

timber-feller n.

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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 79 When in hill-environ'd vales the timber-feller takes A sharp set stomach to his meat.

a1970 E. M. Forster Life to Come (1972) 74 There was a tolerable road, made by the timber-fellers.

timber-floater n.

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1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. xvii. 398 The shelter of timber-floaters.

timber-harvester n.

ΚΠ

1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Sept. 86/2 The..economic arguments of timber-harvesters.

timber-worker n.

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1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 239 Some pine which timber-workers have cut down.

(b)

timber-boring adj.

ΚΠ

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 235 A little timber-boring beetle.

timber-carrying adj.

timber-cutting adj.

timber-devouring adj.

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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 146 A small timber-devouring beetle.

timber-eating adj.

ΚΠ

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. viii. 232 Timber-eating beetles.

timber-floating adj.

ΚΠ

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 205 The Gambia timber-floating industry.

timber-harvesting n.

ΚΠ

1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Sept. 86/1 It may also be that top park administrators..apply the terminology and techniques of timber harvesting to areas in which the primary use is recreational.

timber-producing adj.

ΚΠ

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 3 The approximate extent of timber-producing forests.

c. Instrumental and parasynthetic.

timber-built adj.

ΚΠ

1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) II. xii. 203 An old timber-built cottage.

timber-ceilinged adj.

ΚΠ

1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 226 A handsome timber-ceiling'd hall.

timber-covered adj.

ΚΠ

1895 Outing 27 44/2 Enclosed between three great peaks—one timber-covered to its top.

† timber-heeled adj. Obsolete

timber-laden adj.

timber-lined adj.

ΚΠ

1856 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 225 You timber-lined sides! You distant ships.

1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 95 The walls of the shaft were..timber-lined.

timber-propt adj.

ΚΠ

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 It chanc'd the Stack he faddom't thrice, Was timmer-propt for thrawin.

timber-skeletoned adj.

timber-strewn adj.

C2. Special combinations. See also timberman n., timber-tree n., etc.

timber beast n. North American a logger.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

wood-hewerc1000

wooderc1050

hagger1294

wood-hagger1294

feller1422

woodman1426

faller1614

wood-maker1616

forest-feller1618

axeman1671

holt-felstera1678

stocker1686

bayman1715

logger1734

wood-cutter1758

lumberer1809

lumbermana1817

shantyman1824

chopper1827

splitter1841

bushman1846

mahogany cutter1850

piner1871

bush-faller1882

lumberjack1888

bushwhacker1898

home guard1903

Jack1910

gyppo1912

timber-getter1912

timberjack1916

timber beast1919

1919 Camp Worker 26 Apr. 5/2 A large number of our city folk imagine that a ‘timber beast’ has just about as much need for brain as a Canadian soldier in Siberia has for refrigeration machinery.

1975 J. Gores Hammett (1976) xiii. 93 They thought he was a timber beast out of Seattle.

timber-beetle n. any beetle which, in the larval or the perfect state, is destructive to timber.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle)

timber-capricorn1803

timber-beetle1841

bark-borer1859

bark-beetle1862

pin borer1890

scolytid1890

timberman1894

engraver beetle1896

ambrosia beetle1897

pinhole borer1916

shot-hole borer1916

1841–52 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (1862) 58 The first was obtained by beating the limbs of some forest-tree. It may be called Lymexylon sericeum, the silky timber-beetle.

timber berth n. Canadian a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > licensed

timber berth1837

timber-limit1854

1837 Times (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 17 Jan. 22/1 The selling of Crown lands by auction—and the disposal of the timber berths.

1957 Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Christmas 68/3 The mission bought a sawmill and set it up on a timber berth just north of the Sunchild reserve buildings.

timber-brick n. a brick-shaped block of wood, inserted in brickwork.

timber-capricorn n. a kind of timber-beetle (Capricorn n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

timber-capricorn1803

timber-beetle1841

bark-borer1859

bark-beetle1862

pin borer1890

scolytid1890

timberman1894

engraver beetle1896

ambrosia beetle1897

pinhole borer1916

shot-hole borer1916

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 227 The Timber Capricorn... Feeds principally on fir timber which has been felled.

timber carriage n. = timber-cart n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights

drug?a1549

drug cart?a1549

drug-carriage1665

tug1706

timber carriage1747

timber-tuga1800

janker1823

jinker1860

timber-cart1884

junker1885

lumber-carrier1928

straddle carrier1950

straddle truck1958

telehandler1982

1747 E. Purefoy in Purefoy Lett. 12 May (1931) I. 41 This day I ordered the Timber Carriage to be set up by Simon Hobcroft the Carpenter.

1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady ii. iii. 110 A miller's tented waggon,..a timber-carriage, and a couple of spring-carts.

timber-cart n. spec. a high-wheeled cart for carrying heavy timber, which is slung under the axles.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights

drug?a1549

drug cart?a1549

drug-carriage1665

tug1706

timber carriage1747

timber-tuga1800

janker1823

jinker1860

timber-cart1884

junker1885

lumber-carrier1928

straddle carrier1950

straddle truck1958

telehandler1982

1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Timber Cart... The timber, after the cart is driven over it, is raised to the axle by crank-gearing and tackle.

timber-chain n. an iron chain used in hauling timber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > chain for moving logs

timber-chain1707

jack ladder1871

jack chain1878

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 308 The quickest way of pulling them [shrubs and bushes] up, is to inclose in a Timber-Chain as many of them as you can, and to clap to them a Team of Horses.

timber cruise n. North American = cruise n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber

timber cruise1933

timber cruising1933

1933 E. Merrick True North 319 The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by..their timber cruises.

1949 Boston Globe 17 July (Fiction Mag.) 8/1 Hard years in mine and timber cruise had given Flood a certain steadiness and maturity.

1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night (1957) iii. 33 Someone offered me a job on a timber cruise up in the north Ontario bush.

timber-cruiser n. [cruiser n. 3] North American a timber prospector.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber > prospector

cruiser1893

timber-cruiser1894

1894 Cent. Mag. Mar. 671/2 The timber-cruiser is a hero... The location of a choice tract of timber is a secret to be guarded with his life.

1981 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxvii. 5 In 1890 the area was inhabited only by a few transient timber cruisers and mineral prospectors.

timber cruising n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber

timber cruise1933

timber cruising1933

1933 Meccano Mag. Mar. 195/1 Another activity confined largely to the Eastern Lines is ‘timber cruising’, which consists of the surveying and mapping out of various forest areas.

1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night (1957) xviii. 143 Winter was a good time for timber cruising. A pair of snow-shoes would carry you anywhere.

timber-dog n. a short wrought iron rod with both ends turned down and sharpened, for driving into and holding together timbers in tunneling or the timbering of trenches.

timber-doodle n. (a) U.S. local, the American woodcock, Philohela minor ( Cent. Dict. 1891); (b) slang spirituous liquor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun]

water of life?c1450

burning watera1475

watera1475

aqua vitae1542

spirit1559

strong water1615

hot waters1616

spirituous liquor1659

spirit1663

fire1707

tape1725

strunt1786

hard stuff1789

firewater1799

fool's water1815

fool water1837

spirituous liquor1842

timber-doodle1842

lightning1858

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Scolopax (woodcock) > scolopax minor

woodcockc1050

wood-snitec1050

timber-doodle1842

Labrador twister1877

wood-snipe1887

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 141 Mint Julep, Sherry-cobbler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks.

1856 Spirit of Times 25 Oct. 129/1 While we have been dosing timberdoodles with infinitesimal blue pills, they shall have..been doctoring bruins.

1873 Punch 17 May 201/2 Any description of beverage possessing the properties of American ‘timberdoodle’.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Oct. 41/1 Any hunter who has ever overheated his shotgun barrel trying to down the elusive timberdoodle knows..of the erratic flight of the woodcock.

timber drive n. North American an organized floating of loose timber down a waterway; a quantity of timber so floated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs

flume1784

log-rollinga1792

drive1835

river-driving1843

river drive1845

sluice-way1851

sacking1860

timber drivea1861

skidding1877

log-running1878

skid road1880

rigging1897

swamping1902

log-drivea1904

high lead1905

high-lining1919

a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 23 The head-driver of a timber-drive leads a disorderly army.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 616/1 I caught sight..of a second log, followed by a third and yet others in an apparently endless procession. I had never encountered a timber drive before.

1957 B. Hutchison Canada 101 He had heard only vague rumors of the old timber drives in the days of Peter Emberley.

timber-driver n. one who is engaged in transporting timber from the forest.

ΚΠ

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 616/1 Timber-drivers.

timber due n. Canadian a tax paid to the government on each tree taken out of a timber berth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tax

timber due1883

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on other commodities

boscage1483

maletent1543

stackage1587

powder tax1775

newspaper stamp duty1815

newspaper stamp1826

timber due1883

carbon tax1979

1883 J. Fraser Shanty Life Backwoods of Canada 87 How easily this could be balanced in the treasury accounts by the smallest additional fraction upon timber dues.

1936 A. R. M. Lower Settlement & Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada 77 To Crown timber dues was added ‘timber licence’, ‘timber-limit’, or ‘timber-berth’ arrangement.

timber-drug n. a carriage for timber.

ΚΠ

1917 Isle of Ely & Wisbech Adv. 28 Nov. 6 Defendant..asked if he had a pair of timber drugs he could hire.

timber-fall n. a mass of fallen trees.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [noun] > fallen or uprooted

rower1442

windfall1464

root-fall1584

down timber1837

deadfall1883

uproot1891

timber-fall1897

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 289 We climbed up one hill,..went through our athletic sports over sundry timber falls, and struck down into the ravine.

timber-frame n. †(a) timber for use in frames (frame n. 6); (b) see quot. 1877; (c) attributive = timber-framed adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood > for specific use

framing timber1522

studding1588

timber-frame1703

frame1821

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > gang-saw

gang-saw1804

stock-gang1875

Yankee gang1875

timber-frame1877

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]

wandedc1593

brick-built1596

rock-built1596

mud-walled1607

sedgy1624

sodden1639

nogged1688

frame1760

logged1784

stucco1786

weatherboarded1794

piled1795

thick-walled1820

clapboarded1835

board-built1837

pebble-dashed1839

puncheoned1843

timber-framed1843

betimbered1847

pile-built1851

massy1855

bamboo-walled1858

portable1860

half-timber1874

stone-faced1874

Red River frame1879

ashlared1881

granolithic1881

brick-end1883

converted1888

steel frame1898

board-and-bat1902

traviated1902

steel-framed1906

prefabricated1921

prefab1937

multiwall1940

pre-engineered1955

curtain-walled1959

pre-fabbed1959

timber-frame1967

system-built1968

flat-pack1982

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 237 7s. which indeed is the common price for sawing a good large siz'd Timber-frame..per Load.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Timber-frame, a gang-saw; the name by which it is known in England.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 32/2 Timber-frame houses are composed of lightweight sections and therefore are easy to erect.

timber-framed adj. having a frame of timber, framed in wood.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]

wandedc1593

brick-built1596

rock-built1596

mud-walled1607

sedgy1624

sodden1639

nogged1688

frame1760

logged1784

stucco1786

weatherboarded1794

piled1795

thick-walled1820

clapboarded1835

board-built1837

pebble-dashed1839

puncheoned1843

timber-framed1843

betimbered1847

pile-built1851

massy1855

bamboo-walled1858

portable1860

half-timber1874

stone-faced1874

Red River frame1879

ashlared1881

granolithic1881

brick-end1883

converted1888

steel frame1898

board-and-bat1902

traviated1902

steel-framed1906

prefabricated1921

prefab1937

multiwall1940

pre-engineered1955

curtain-walled1959

pre-fabbed1959

timber-frame1967

system-built1968

flat-pack1982

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 179/2 Along a whole range of lofty timber-framed roofs.

1904 Essex Rev. XIII. 215 The house is timber-framed in oak, standing on plinth of brick and septaria.

timber-framing n. the construction of buildings having frames of timber.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > manner of construction > specific

post and pan1517

superedification1610

superstructing1654

trabeation1831

post and petrail1867

post and tan1890

skeleton construction1891

flat-slab construction1906

unit construction1909

prefabrication1932

site assembly1941

sandwich construction1944

post and panel1954

prefabbing1954

post and beam1958

jettying1963

system building1964

biotecture1966

timber-framing1967

post and plaster1997

Passivhaus1998

1967 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 32/2 Timber-framing has completely overcome the postwar ‘pre-fab’ image of industrialized building.

timber-getter n. Australian a lumberman or logger.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

wood-hewerc1000

wooderc1050

hagger1294

wood-hagger1294

feller1422

woodman1426

faller1614

wood-maker1616

forest-feller1618

axeman1671

holt-felstera1678

stocker1686

bayman1715

logger1734

wood-cutter1758

lumberer1809

lumbermana1817

shantyman1824

chopper1827

splitter1841

bushman1846

mahogany cutter1850

piner1871

bush-faller1882

lumberjack1888

bushwhacker1898

home guard1903

Jack1910

gyppo1912

timber-getter1912

timberjack1916

timber beast1919

1912 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 248 The professional timber-getter is a Southern miscreant.

1970 M. Kelly Spinifex vi. 103 The word's Timber Getter, not lumberjack.

timber-grouse n. U.S. any species of grouse frequenting woodlands.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

timber-grouse1891

1891 Cent. Dict. Timber-grouse.

1894 Outing 24 305/1 We..had great fun with the timber-grouse and the sage-hens.

timber-head n. (a) Nautical the head or end of any timber; spec. such an end rising above the deck and serving as a bollard: see c1860 at kevel n.² 2; (b) slang (rare) = blockhead n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

asseOE

sotc1000

beastc1225

long-ear?a1300

stock1303

buzzard1377

mis-feelinga1382

dasarta1400

stonea1400

dasiberd14..

dottlec1400

doddypoll1401

dastardc1440

dotterel1440

dullardc1440

wantwit1449

jobardc1475

nollc1475

assheada1500

mulea1500

dull-pate15..

peak1509

dulbert?a1513

doddy-patec1525

noddypolla1529

hammer-head1532

dull-head?1534

capon1542

dolt1543

blockhead1549

cod's head1549

mome1550

grout-head1551

gander1553

skit-brains?1553

blocka1556

calfa1556

tomfool1565

dunce1567

druggard1569

cobble1570

dummel1570

Essex calf1573

jolthead1573

hardhead1576

beetle-head1577

dor-head1577

groutnoll1578

grosshead1580

thickskin1582

noddyship?1589

jobbernowl1592

beetle-brain1593

Dorbel1593

oatmeal-groat1594

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block-pate1598

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noddypoop1598

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dulman1615

jolterhead1620

bullhead1624

dunderwhelpa1625

dunderhead1630

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clod-patea1635

clota1637

dildo1638

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stub1644

simpletonian1652

bottle-head1654

Bœotiana1657

vappe1657

lackwit1668

cudden1673

plant-animal1673

dolt-head1679

cabbage head1682

put1688

a piece of wood1691

ouphe1694

dunderpate1697

numbskull1697

leather-head1699

nocky1699

Tom Cony1699

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dunny1709

dowf1722

stupe1722

gamphrel1729

gobbin?1746

duncehead1749

half-wit1755

thick-skull1755

jackass1756

woollen-head1756

numbhead1757

beef-head1775

granny1776

stupid-head1792

stunpolla1794

timber-head1794

wether heada1796

dummy1796

noghead1800

staumrel1802

muttonhead1803

num1807

dummkopf1809

tumphya1813

cod's head and shoulders1820

stoopid1823

thick-head1824

gype1825

stob1825

stookiea1828

woodenhead1831

ning-nong1832

log-head1834

fat-head1835

dunderheadism1836

turnip1837

mudhead1838

donkey1840

stupex1843

cabbage1844

morepork1845

lubber-head1847

slowpoke1847

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pudding-head1851

cod's head and shoulders1852

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moke1855

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pothead1855

mug1857

thick1857

boodle1862

meathead1863

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lunk1867

turnip-head1869

rummy1872

pumpkin-head1876

tattie1879

chump1883

dully1883

cretin1884

lunkhead1884

mopstick1886

dumbhead1887

peanut head1891

pie-face1891

doughbakea1895

butt-head1896

pinhead1896

cheesehead1900

nyamps1900

box head1902

bonehead1903

chickenhead1903

thickwit1904

cluck1906

boob1907

John1908

mooch1910

nitwit1910

dikkop1913

goop1914

goofus1916

rumdum1916

bone dome1917

moron1917

oik1917

jabroni1919

dumb-bell1920

knob1920

goon1921

dimwit1922

ivory dome1923

stone jug1923

dingleberry1924

gimp1924

bird brain1926

jughead1926

cloth-head1927

dumb1928

gazook1928

mouldwarp1928

ding-dong1929

stupido1929

mook1930

sparrow-brain1930

knobhead1931

dip1932

drip1932

epsilon1932

bohunkus1933

Nimrod1933

dumbass1934

zombie1936

pea-brain1938

knot-head1940

schlump1941

jarhead1942

Joe Soap1943

knuckle-head1944

nong1944

lame-brain1945

gobshite1946

rock-head1947

potato head1948

jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

bam1959

nong-nong1959

dickhead1960

dumbo1960

Herbert1960

lamer1961

bampot1962

dipshit1963

bamstick1965

doofus1965

dick1966

pillock1967

zipperhead1967

dipstick1968

thickie1968

poephol1969

yo-yo1970

doof1971

cockhead1972

nully1973

thicko1976

wazzock1976

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

no-brainer1979

jerkwad1980

woodentop1981

dickwad1983

dough ball1983

dickweed1984

bawheid1985

numpty1985

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

knob-end1989

Muppet1989

dingus1997

dicksack1999

eight ball-

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > end of any timber

timber-head1794

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > end of any timber > rising above the deck

timber-head1794

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 287 The head-rail and timber-head, on the fore side of the cathead.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 78 We went aft and manned the slip-rope which came through the stern port with a turn round the timber-heads.

1849 H. Melville Redburn vi. 45 You timber-head..take this bucket here, and go up the rigging.

timber-headed adj. wooden-headed, dense or obtuse in intellect.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

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stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

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pot-headed1533

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blockheaded1549

surd1551

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hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

buzzardly1561

witless1562

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assy1566

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dastardly1567

stupidious1567

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grout-headed1578

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dull-pated1580

blate1581

buzzard-like1581

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dullard1583

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duncical1588

leaden-headed1589

buzzard1592

dorbellical1592

dunstical1592

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shallow-brained1592

blunt-witted1594

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Bœotian1598

clay-brained1598

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knotty-pated1598

stupidous1598

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insulse1609

leaden-spirited1609

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clumse1611

blockheadly1612

wattle-headed1613

flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

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half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

loggerhead1684

dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

crassous1708

doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

pitcher-souleda1739

duncey1743

hebete1743

chuckheaded1756

dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

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thick-headed1801

gypit1804

duncish1805

lightweight1809

numbskull1814

tup-headed1816

chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

ninnyish1822

dunch1825

fozy1825

potato-headed1826

beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 74 Such timber-headed fellows that..they could make noe accurate observations.

timber-hitch n. a knot used in attaching a rope to a log or spar for hoisting or towing it: see quot. 1815.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > other knots

water knot1496

draw knot1635

slip-knot1679

tie-knot1800

timber-hitch1815

thorough-put1829

fisherman's bendc1860

Celtic knot1865

lark's head1866

waterman's knot1866

packing knot1871

fisherman's knot1876

prusik knot1937

1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) 195/2 A Timber Hitch..is made by taking the end of a rope round the spar, or timber head, leading it under and over the standing part, and passing several turns round its own part.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 2 What is a timber hitch used for? For bending to a spar, to haul it along, sending it aloft, &c.

1893 F. M. Crawford Children of King II. xii. 214 He slipped the line under the bags of ballast, and made a timber-hitch with the end, hauling it well taut.

timber-hitch v. (transitive) to make fast with a timber-hitch.

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1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 87 The standing part is timber-hitched round the yard.

timberjack n. North American a lumberman or logger.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

wood-hewerc1000

wooderc1050

hagger1294

wood-hagger1294

feller1422

woodman1426

faller1614

wood-maker1616

forest-feller1618

axeman1671

holt-felstera1678

stocker1686

bayman1715

logger1734

wood-cutter1758

lumberer1809

lumbermana1817

shantyman1824

chopper1827

splitter1841

bushman1846

mahogany cutter1850

piner1871

bush-faller1882

lumberjack1888

bushwhacker1898

home guard1903

Jack1910

gyppo1912

timber-getter1912

timberjack1916

timber beast1919

1916 A. Bridle Sons of Canada 5 He was a timberjack in the hardwood bush of western Ontario.

1953 D. Cushman Timberjack 127 You boys hired out to be timberjacks.

timber jam n. = log-jam n. 1.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > log-jam

jam1805

log-jam1885

timber jam1888

1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia 186 On one of the huge timber jams which so often occurred we passed close to a wolverene.

1910 J. London Lost Face 133 Crossing a timber jam on the frozen bed of the Teelee, the sled suffered a wrenching capsize.

1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself iv. 101 The removal of the key-log in a timber-jam starts the whole pile.

timber-jumper n. Hunting slang a horse good at jumping over gates and fences.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > that jumps well

timber-jumper1832

timber-topper1883

lepper1907

1832 Q. Rev. 47 237 ‘Now for the timber-jumper,’ cries Osbaldeston, pleased to find himself upon Clasher.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1902) VI. 498 I never put my leg over such a timber-jumper in my life.

timber-leader n. Coal Mining (see quot.).

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > mine safety workers

fireman1817

fire boss1869

safety man1877

timber-leader1891

1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Timber-leader,..a person whose duty is to ensure the sufficiency of props, planks, brattice, and crown trees, supplied to each hewer in northern coal mines.

timber licence n. Canadian a licence to cut timber on a timber berth on payment of dues to the government.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > licence to fell

timber licence1921

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Mar. 5/2 It was a wide open invitation to the speculator to buy up large numbers of timber licences in arrears.

1966 Canad. Forest Industries Nov. 55/1 Amendments made to the Forest Act in 1965 now permit: Application of the cost of timber sales to the timber licence as a whole, or to cutting permits issued pursuant to the licence.

timber-limit n. (a) Canadian see quot. 1876; (b) any tract of forested land suitable for lumbering; (c) = timberline n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering

wood-lot1658

timber-limit1854

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > licensed

timber berth1837

timber-limit1854

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > tree-limit

timber-limit1854

timberline1867

tree-line1893

tree-limit1934

1854 T. C. Keefer Ottawa 56 No timber limits are without water—for it is by water alone that the timber can reach its market.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 The Governments of the different provinces [Canada] grant licences..to cut timber over vast tracts of land, under the name of ‘timber limits’.

1890 Grip (Toronto) 8 Feb. 83/2 A Journal..is..agitated lest, by disputing our timber-limits.., the Ontario Government shall bring the province to direct taxation.

1898 W. T. Jennings Rep. Routes to Yukon 9 The whole valley and slopes to the timber limit are clothed with cotton-wood, spruce and alder trees.

1914 H. Bindloss Intriguers 108 We want to get as far north as the timber limit.

1960 Ottawa Citizen 18 June 38/5 A Blackfoot Indian band in 1892 surrendered a timber limit in Alberta.

timber-lode n. in Feudal Law, a service by which a tenant was bound to carry wood felled in the forests to the lord's house (cf. bord-lode n.).

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society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligations of tenants > other obligations of tenants

bridgeworkOE

bedrip1226

timber-lodec1400

suit and service1416

suling-man1440

presence and suit1504

homage and suit?a1509

sect of court1546

wood-carriage1557

suit service1579

sword-service1630

society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service

bedrip1226

needbedripc1284

sorren1289

penny-eartha1300

corvée1340

plough-boon1388

timber-lodec1400

carriage1423

sickle-boon1438

foreign servicea1475

average1489

castle-guard1576

boonage1610

reaping day1657

reap day1663

archery1691

boon-work1883

bene-rip-

c1400 Will. Thorne Chron. ann. 1364 Pro schippeshere, timberlode & bordlode, vel cariare extra waldam per mare.

timber-mare n. a kind of wooden horse on which offending soldiers and others were made to ride as a punishment.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows

gallowsOE

gallows-treea1000

warytre?a1200

gibbet?c1225

gallow-forka1250

forkc1275

juisec1320

forchesc1380

crossa1382

treec1425

patible1428

justice1484

potencec1500

haltera1533

turning-tree1548

potentc1550

three treesa1566

chates1567

mare1568

furel1587

bough1590

gibe1590

derrickc1600

hangrella1605

cross-tree1638

Gregorian tree1641

wooden horse1642

timber-marec1650

triple tree1651

furca1653

nubbing1673

a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678

nub1699

Tyburn tree1728

raven-stone1738

picture frame1785

crap1789

lamp-iron1790

Moll Blood1818

stifler1818

scragging-post1819

government signposta1828

leafless tree1830

shuggie-shue1836

doom-tree1837

stob1860–62

society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > wooden horse

wooden horse1629

horse1648

timber-marec1650

wooden mare1819

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 290 He causit big wp..ane tymber meir, quhairvpone runnaget knaves and runaway soldiouris sould ryde.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Horse A wooden machine which soldiers ride by way of punishment. It is sometimes called a timber-mare.

timber-pond n. a recess in a dock or harbour where timber may be floated.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > site for storing floating timber

timber-pond1840

rafting works1886

holding ground1957

1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 9 The timber-pond to which I allude is at this spot.

timber rattler n.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus or member of genus Crotalus > rattlesnake

rattlesnake1624

cascabel1758

prairie rattlesnake1817

rattler1827

water rattle1832

mangrove cascabel1858

horned rattlesnake1870

sidewinder1875

prairie rattler1878

diamond rattlesnake1883

water rattler1888

diamond-back1907

timber rattler1936

1936 E. G. Barnard Rider Cherokee Strip 51 Some called it the timber rattler or the black diamond rattler.

1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 223 The only other poisonous snake around here is the timber rattler.

timber rattlesnake n. a venomous snake, Crotalus horridus horridus, found in the north-eastern United States and marked with dark bands or blotches.

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1950 Chicago Tribune 16 Mar. ii. 12/2 With him to the zoo went five timber rattlesnakes.

1982 J. S. Borthwick Case of Hook-Billed Kites (1983) xlviii. 171 He swept from the timber rattlesnake..to the western diamondback.

timber-road n. a road laid with timber for wheels to run upon, an early form of railroad.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun]

tram-road1800

timber-road1803

tramway1825

tram1850

trackway1858

1803 Naval Chron. 9 279 Four low wheels,..to run..upon a rail-way or timber-road.

timber-rot n. (a) rotting of wood caused by various hymenomycetous fungi; (b) New England a hot-house disease of cucumbers ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).

timber-scribe n. [scribe n.²] see quots.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > marking tools > [noun] > scoring

style1659

scorer1688

ruling engine1826

scrieve1828

timber-scribe1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Timber-scribe, a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking logs and casks.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Timber-scribe, a scoring-tool for timber; a race-knife.

timber-sow n. a woodlouse or sow-bug, Oniscus.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus

lockchestera1400

sow14..

lugdora1425

louk?a1450

lockchestc1450

cheslip1530

palmer1538

chestworm1544

Robin Goodfellow's louse1552

monk's peason1558

cheslock1574

porcelet1578

swine louse1579

hog-louse1580

multiped1601

kitchen-bob1610

woodlouse1611

loop1612

millipede1612

timber-sow1626

cheeselog1657

sow-louse1658

thurse-louse1658

onisc1661

monkey pea1682

slater1684

slatter1739

sow-bug1750

Oniscus1806

pig louse1819

hob-thrush1828

land-slater1863

pig's louse1888

wall-louse1899

oniscoid1909

chucky-pig1946

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §692 Creatures bred of Putrefaction;..as Earth-Wormes, Timber-Sowes, Snails.

† timber-stairs n. slang Obsolete the pillory.

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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks

stocksc1325

pilloryc1330

stocka1382

gofe1489

stretchneck1543

harmans1567

foot trap1585

pigeonholes1592

jougs1596

berlina1607

halsfang1607

gorget1635

cippusa1637

nutcrackers1648

catasta1664

wooden cravat1676

the wooden ruff1677

neck stock1681

wooden casement1685

timber-stairsc1750

Norway neckcloth1785

law-neck-cloth1789

stoop1795

timber1851–4

nerve1854

c1750 in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 181 Up stairs, down stairs, Timber stairs fears me.

† timber-taster n. Obsolete a dockyard official formerly employed in testing the measurement, soundness, and quality of timber.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers

rough-hewer1574

hoop-shaver1688

timber-taster1803

spaller1843

pump log borer1857

stamp-cutter1858

creosoter1889

timberman1890

worm-eater1890

slabby1907

1803 T. Netherton in Naval Chron. 15 220 The timber tasters..have been paid at the same rate..as the labourers.

1806 3rd Report Revising Commission The several Measurers, Timber Tasters, Converters, and Plug Keepers [etc.], are to be called Single-stationed-men.

timber-toe n. (also timber-toes) a wooden-legged man.

timber-toe n. slang a wooden leg.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg

leg1574

wooden leg1582

stump1679

peg leg1769

timber-toe1785

peg1826

tram1836

jury-leg1850

pylon1919

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg > person having

timber-toe1785

peg leg1872

peg-legger1915

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Timber toe, a man with a wooden leg.

1830 T. Hood in Forget me Not 415 Why did he plant his timber toe on my toe.

timber-toed adj.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [adjective] > having artificial leg

jury-legged1751

timber-toed1814

tree-legged1838

wooden-legged1840

peg-legged1861

pin-legged1884

1814 Sailor's Return ii. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 343 The old timber-toed pensioners.

timber-topper n. = timber-jumper n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > that jumps well

timber-jumper1832

timber-topper1883

lepper1907

1883 Standard 12 Feb. 2/6 The champion timber-topper of the day.

timber-topping n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > jumping fences

fencing1827

timber-topping1904

1904 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 9/3 An animal who is to be condemned to the drudgery of timber-topping.

timber-tower n. a wooden tower on wheels formerly used in sieges.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > siege-tower

belfryc1300

mate-griffonc1330

summercastle1382

bastillec1400

towerc1440

summertowera1450

bestial1488

bastide1523

turret1565

timber-tower1614

helepole1770

cat-castle1861

1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iii. 111 Here, th' Enginer begins his Ram to rear;..Brings here his Fly-Bridge, there his batt'ring Crow: Besides high Timber-Towers, on rowling Feet Mov'd and remov'd.

timber-tug n. see quot. a1800.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights

drug?a1549

drug cart?a1549

drug-carriage1665

tug1706

timber carriage1747

timber-tuga1800

janker1823

jinker1860

timber-cart1884

junker1885

lumber-carrier1928

straddle carrier1950

straddle truck1958

telehandler1982

a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Timber-tug (Kent), the carriage of a waggon for conveying timber, with a long perch, which may be adapted to any length, or shortened.

1977 N. Freeling Gadget iii. 142 Sturdy horses could haul carts, timber-tugs, sleds in winter.

† timber-turner n. Obsolete humorously used for a player at bowls.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > player

bowler?1518

timber-turner1599

sidesman1843

ground-bowler1874

soft second1905

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C2 These timber turners, these trowle the bowles, these greene-men.

timber wheels n. (see quot. 1905).

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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging 42 Logging wheels, a pair of wheels, usually about 10 feet in diameter, for transporting logs. Syn. :..timber wheels.

timber-wolf n. North American the grey wolf, Canis lupus occidentalis, as distinct from the prairie-wolf.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > varieties of

lobo1859

timber-wolf1860

loafer?1877

Japanese wolf1878

red wolf1942

1860 Nor' Wester (Red River Settlement) 28 Feb. 4/2 We also saw a large timber wolf (not a wolf made of wood, but a gentleman who inhabits prairies and wooded country).

1891 Cent. Dict. Timber-wolf.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 12/1 Last year the female timber-wolf in the Zoological Gardens produced eight cubs.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies iii. 30 The grey wolf, also known as timber wolf and formerly as buffalo wolf, is grey in colour with a liberal sprinkling of black and brown in the coat.

1964 E. P. Walker et al. Mammals of World II. 1152/1 Two species of wolves are recognized: C. lupus, the gray or timber wolf, and C. niger, the red wolf.

1980 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 19 In the warehouse, red and silver fox furs hang beside the sleek pelts of lynx, timber wolf and beaver.

timber-worm n. a ‘worm’ or larva injurious to timber.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > which bores in wood

Teredo1398

timber-worm1530

wood-worm1540

moch1637

wood grub1956

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Tymbre worme.

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 23 Before thou wast, were Timber-worms in price?

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1083 The Philosopher saith that Kis is a little Creature bred in wood, like Worms bred in Corn; the English call them Timber-worms, because they are seldome in any wood but that which is cut, and prepared for building.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 55 Cossi, Timber-worms.

Derivatives

timber-like adj.

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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 191/1 The right to timber and timber-like trees belongs to the landlord.

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Trees collectively, in their natural state and not considered as building material; an area of woodland or forest. Occasionally figurative, denoting a haven of rustic simplicity. Originally U.S.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > collectively

arbory1366

timber1792

tree-life1898

1792 B. Netherland Let. 6 July in B. H. Young Hist. Jessamine County, Kentucky (1898) 49 [He] shot him in the arm and ran off into the timber.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. ix. 152 A spur of willows running out from the timber, indicated the presence of water.

1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life i. 13 He disappeared in the timber and old-man salt-bush.

1912 R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone (1913) 152 Oh, I want to go back to the timber again—I'm scared of the terrible town.

1957 Times 12 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p.xvi/1 Northward..the timber attenuates into a sub-Arctic forest (taiga) and finally gives way to the true Arctic tundra.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 131 The..roos..moved off slowly into the trees. Hunter started the engine and..cautiously turned along the edge of the timber.

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timber circle n. Archaeology (the remains of) a prehistoric monument consisting of a circular or elliptical timber structure (usually interpreted as a circle of large free-standing timber posts), typically surviving only as one or more rings of postholes; cf. woodhenge n.Neolithic and Bronze Age examples of such monuments are sometimes located within an enclosure formed by a surrounding bank with an internal ditch (see henge n. 2) or other earthwork.

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1912 Trans. Lancs & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 1911 29 181 The Rev. S. E. Collinson..read a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, on ‘The Bleasdale Timber Circles and some suggestions as to their purpose’.

1927 M. E. Cunnington in Antiquity 1 92 (title) Prehistoric timber circles.

1976 A. Burl Stone Circles Brit. Isles v. 123 This circle was eventually replaced by a simple embanked timber circle, and this, in turn, was succeeded by a ring-cairn seemingly of the Early Bronze Age.

2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 22/1 The stones that we see now [at Stonehenge] were erected..within a much older earthwork that once probably contained a timber circle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	timber
释义	timbern.¹ Brit. /ˈtɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈtɪmbər/ Forms: α. Old English– timber; Middle English timbir, Middle English–1600s timbre, Middle English timbur (1600s timberr), Middle English–1600s tymber, Middle English–1500s tymbre, Middle English tymbyr, tymbir(e, Middle English–1500s tymbur, ( tembre). β. Scottish and northern dialectMiddle English tymyr(e, Middle English tymmir, tymmyr(e, ( temir, temyr), Middle English–1800s tymmer, 1500s tymer, tymir, ( temmer), 1700s–1800s timmer. Etymology: Old English timber = Old Frisian timber, Old Saxon timbar (Dutch dialect timmer), Old High German zimbar (Middle High German zimber, German zimmer room), Old Norse timbr timber (Swedish timmer, Danish tømmer), Gothic timr (compare timr-jan* to build, timr-ja builder, etc.) < Old Germanic tim-ra^m < tem-ro^m < Indo-European dem-ro^m, < ablaut series dem: dom: dm, to build: compare Greek δέμειν to build, δόμος, Latin domus house. †1. a. A building, structure, edifice, house. Also figurative. Obsolete (? only Old English.) ΚΠ c825 Vesp. Psalter ci. 8 Swe swe spearwa se anga in timbre [L. unicus in aedificio]. c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxviii. 6 Sien swe swe heg timbra [L. faenum aedificiorum]. a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvii.] 204 Þa næglas..þe heo mid þæm to þæm timbre [L. aedificio] gefæstnad wæs. a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iii. 262 Þæt..þa lifigendan stanas þære cirican of eorðlicum seþlum to þæm heofonlican timbre gebær. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xiii. 1 gesih hulco stanas & hulig timber [Ags. Gosp. hwylce getimbrunga, L. quales structuræ]. OE Genesis 135 Þa seo tid gewat ofer timber [MS. tiber] sceacan middangeardes. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 198 Sio [liver] is blodes timber, & blodes hus & fostor. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3692 Þey logged hem, & tymber teld [Petyt MS. timbred teld = constructed tents (which is prob. the correct reading)]. †b. The process of building. Obsolete (only Old English.) ΚΠ c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 178 On .vi. nihtne monan..he is..god circan on to timbrane and eac scipes timber on to anginnanne. †2. Building material generally; material for the construction of houses, ships, etc., or (in extended sense) of any manufactured article; the matter or substance of which anything is built up or composed; matter, material, stuff. Obsolete. Cf. belly-timber n., flesh-timber (flesh n. Compounds 2).In early use including 3; in later use probably figurative from it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material timbera900 stuff1442 stone and mortar1534 bricks and mortar1576 building-material1833 fabric1849 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood timbera900 timber-work1390 timber-wood1480 timbering1486 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substance or being being1340 substance1340 essencea1398 materialitya1529 stuff1587 subject1590 timber1612 primary substance1774 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xvi. [xxii.] 224 Þætte ne meahten godo beon, þa ðe monna hondum geworhte wæron of eorðlicum timbre, oðþe of treom, oðþe of stanum. a1000 Confess. Ecgberti in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) Addit. 16 II. 234 Ne sceal cyrcean timber [L. ligna ecclesiæ] to ænigum oðrum weorce. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 333, l. 334 Þis wright..Fra al oþer, sundri and sere, For þai most oþer timber take, Bot he þis self can timber make. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 18 Such dispositions are..the fittest timber to make great Politiques of. 1840 M. F. Shepherd in Life of Adam Clarke viii. 261 There is much sound timber in these sermons. 3. a. spec. Wood used for the building of houses, ships, etc., or for the use of the carpenter, joiner, or other artisan; wood in general as a material; esp. after it has been suitably trimmed and squared into logs, or further adapted to constructive uses.A restricted use of sense 2, and in early quots. often not distinguishable from it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] treec890 woodc897 timbera1100 mattera1382 stuff1544 lignum1826 a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 On wintra erian and in miclum gefyrstum timber cleofan. c1200 Vices & Virtues 27 And ðe wrihte his timber to keruen after ðare mone. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11442 Timber me lete biwinnen. and þat beord bi-ginnen. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1724 Now wat sir noe quat wark to do And hent timber þat fel þar-to. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiv. ii Ararat is þe hyȝest hill of Armenia;..and ȝit to þis day þe tymber of þe schip is sene in þe mounteyne. 1466 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 23 Mak the ruiffes of guid tymmer and theik thame with sclaitt. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 29 Y^e tymmer of y^e larche tre..is very..profitable for bildyng. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 4 Their Boats of Timber without any Iron in them. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 338 Vessels..chiefly imploy'd in carrying Timber, Salt,..and other Commodities. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 84 The timber of the Beam Tree (Pyrus Aria) is invaluable for axletrees. 1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) vii. 92 When the wood of a stem or branch of any species of plant attains to the dimensions of 24 inches in circumference, or upwards of eight inches in diameter, it is termed timber. b. Wood as a substance, or as the material of small utensils or parts of them. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood as a substance timber1530 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. xii. sig. d2^v A cup of tymber or metall. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 Their Arrowes finely pair'd, for Timber, and for Feather. 1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 503 For setting up a strip of timber on my window, 6d. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 84/2 The Wood, or Timberr, is between the Sap and Heart. 1793 T. Scott Poems 364 A breast o' timmer an' a heart o' stane. 1834 A. Smart Rambling Rhymes 135 (E.D.D.) Her wheels were made o' timmer. 4. a. Applied to the wood of growing trees capable of being used for structural purposes; hence collectively to the trees themselves. Rarely in plural.standing timber: see standing adj. 10. tall timber: see tall adj. 7e. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > timber-tree > collectively timberc893 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. vi. §2 Æfter siextegum daga þæs þe ðæt timber [L. arbores] acorfen wæs. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 11808 A kanker..the werm..That ffreteth the herte off a tre, And..Doth to tymber gret damage. 1566 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1584. 209/1 Habere lie wattillis et lie fallin tymmer de silva de Cleue. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 15 The Timber of the Countrey growes straight, and tall. 1718 Free-thinker No. 59. 2 A naked Ground, blest only with a small Group of Timber. 1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 22 A rough estimate of the value of the timbers..growing at that time in the district of The Holt. 1841 W. Robinson Descr. Acct. Asam 41 Another large and elegant timber indigenous to the forests of Assam, is the Cedrela Toona. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 158 We continued our journey..through a forest of grand timber. b. spec. in English Law, Trees growing upon land, and forming part of the freehold inheritance: embracing generally the oak, ash, and elm, of the age of twenty years or more; in particular districts, by local custom, including other trees, with various limitations as to age.As to the legal bearing of this, see quots. 1766, 1818. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > something on surface of land > timber timber1766 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xviii. §6. 281 Timber also is part of the inheritance. Such are oak, ash, and elm in all places: and in some particular countries, by local custom, where other trees are generally used for building, they are thereupon considered as timber; and to cut down such trees, or top them, or do any other act whereby the timber may decay, is waste. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 131 By the custom of some countries, certain trees, not usually considered as timber, are deemed to be such, being there used for building... And all the Justices at Serjeants' Inn were of opinion that in the county of York birch trees were timber, and belonged to the inheritance; therefore they could not be taken by the tenant for life. 1891 Daily News 19 Jan. 5/4 By the custom of the county of Buckingham beech trees are timber. c. int. The warning call of the feller when a tree is about to fall. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [interjection] > warning call during felling timber1912 1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. (ed. 2) 47 Timber-r-r! the long-drawn melodious warning call of the sawyers in a lumber camp when a tree is about to fall. 1935 ‘L. Ford’ Burn Forever 56 There was a stentorian shout: ‘Timber!!’ 1968 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Dec. 2/1 The sharp ring of Father's axe echoed in the icy air, and we cried ‘timber’ as our tree fell. 5. a. transferred. Applied to any object familiar to the speaker, composed wholly or chiefly of wood, as †a spear-shaft; †a bowl; a ship; the stocks (slang); wooden gates and fences (Hunting slang); a wicket (Cricket slang); an arrow (rare); small timber, lucifer matches (street slang). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > shaft of spear spear-shafta900 ashOE shaftc1000 truncheon13.. tree?a1366 timberc1400 sting?a1500 spear-staff1530 steal1530 rodc1540 stale1553 stave1873 staff- society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > type of fence timber1791 rasper1812 stopper1832 jump1858 oxer1859 flying fence1883 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket wicket1662 stick1829 timber1840 gate1851 castle1959 society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > wooden timber1871 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 c1400 Rowland & O. 455 Theyre Ioynynge was so harde that tyde That theyre timbir in sondire gan ryde. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 117 [They] mette to-geder on the sheldis, so that the horse ne myght not passe ferther till the tymbres were broken. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2349 [I pray] that thou woldist my son lere, Hys Tymber ffor to asay. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii Come, turn the timmer to laird Patie's health. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vi. 26 The leaps large and frequent, and a great deal of timber to get over. 1840 Bell's Life in London 2 Aug. 2/2 Morewood joined Morrier, who at length received a ‘Winchester screw’, which shattered his timber. 1851–4 D. Jerrold C. Snub in Men of Char. i The squire..gives me over to the beadle, who claps me here in the timber. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 17 They..would grind over..the March Gibbon double timber as..undauntedly as over the accommodating Bullingdon hurdles. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 3 Nor yet a timber o'er the waves alertly flew. 1876 in Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) 332 Appleby..dislodged Webbe's timbers by his second ball in the first over. c1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 180 Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber'll hit The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll's dóne. b. spec. A wooden leg: cf. timber-toe n. at Compounds 2; hence transferred a leg. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > parts of flew1575 timber1807 1807 J. Ruickbie Way-side Cottager 9 in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 35 Boys, miss my pegs..and hit my legs, My timbers well can stand your gentle taps. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) I. 230 [The hounds] have a strong family likeness in the depth of their girth..and the quality of the timber on which they stand. 6. A single beam or piece of wood forming or capable of forming part of any structure. Also collectively in plural. a. gen. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > roughly squared beam beam978 balka1400 needle1428 joist1487 sill1488 rafter1553 timbera1575 bat1577 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 288 The treasure that was made of the timbers, bells, and leads, and the ornaments of the church. 1623 W. Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §15 The massy timber [a summer] shivered in two, as suddenly as the other knapped asunder. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §85 To fasten the outside Timbers. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 8 The original timbers, after this immense lapse of time, are still sound internally. 1894 Labour Comm. in Parl. Papers XXXVIII. Pair of Timber, two timbers placed against the sides of the tunnels in a mine at acute angles with the bottom. They support not only these sides but also another timber, which upholds the roof. b. plural. spec. Nautical. The pieces of wood composing the ribs, bends, or frames of a ship's hull: see frame n. 5f.Often preceded by a qualifying word, as cant-, compass-, cross-, filling-, floor-, futtock-, head-, knee-, knuckle-, rising-, side-, square-, stern-, top-timbers: see these words. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull timber1748 strongback1853 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten. 1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 29 Her timbers yet are sound. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 185 We dragged our barges over the neck of land, but not without straining their timbers. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 29 All the ribs underneath these [floor-boards] are called floor timbers, the rest simply timbers. 1885 Sir J. C. Mathew in Law Times Rep. 52 265/1 Her timbers, no doubt, held together, but she was no longer a ship. figurative.1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxvii. 279 My timbers are now a little crazy, d'ye see; and God knows if I shall keep afloat till such time as I see thee again.1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) xiii. 132 I, whose timbers were somewhat strained, laboured after him. c. Nautical slang, in exclamations, as my timbers!, shiver my timbers! (see shiver v.¹). ΚΠ 1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs I. 153 My timbers, what lingo he'd coil and belay. 7. figurative. Bodily structure, frame, build. In later use, the ‘stuff’ of which a person is made; personal quality or character; preceded by a qualifying word: suitable quality or character for the specified office, etc. Cf. material adj. 3. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [noun] featurec1325 making1340 staturec1380 statea1387 bonea1400 figurec1400 makec1425 corpulence1477 corsage1481 makdom1488 mouldc1550 corporature1555 frame1566 dimension1600 limit1608 set1611 timber1612 compact1646 taille1663 fabric1695 moulding1815 physique1826 tournure1827 build1832 form1849 body type1866 body build1907 somatotype1940 size1985 the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > qualities, stuff conditionsc1374 allaya1456 mettle?1520 stuff1557 alloy1594 wood1594 intrinsical1655 cast1711 calibre1808 timber1906 1612 G. Paule Life Whitgift §138. 93 For his small timber, he was of a good quicke strength, straight and well shaped. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D3^v The twelue Companies of London cannot match him, timber for timber. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 265 Canute..doubting to adventure his body of small Timber, against a man of Iron sides. 1822 C. Lamb Some Old Actors in Elia 1st Ser. He was not altogether of that timber out of which cathedral seats and sounding-boards are hewed. 1892 Chicago Tribune 4 Apr. 4/5 Senator Cullom of Illinois is better Presidential timber than was generally supposed. 1906 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 411 His wish to be courteous to men of Cardinal Rampolla's timber. 1914 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/1 He is everlastingly..N.G. as gubernatorial timber. 1954 Sat. Evening Post 6 Nov. 64/4 CIA recruits many employees from our colleges and universities through a process beginning even before individual students realize that they are being singled out as possible CIA timber. 1967 R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill II. vi. 193 His parliamentary stature had grown and he had proved that he was of Cabinet timber. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 661/2 My contention that he [sc. J. F. Kennedy] was potential Presidential timber. 8. a. attributive or adj. Made or consisting of wood; wooden. (See also Compounds 1, Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood treenc1000 stockya1400 treea1400 timberedc1412 timber?1530 wooden1538 woodya1540 ligneal1599 ligneous1812 carpentered1837 betimbered1847 wooden-built1860 ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Fvi The said duke protectour..toke the lorde Hastynges..and..caused his hede to be smytten of vpon a tymber log within the Towre. 1535 Bible (Coverdale)* Isa. xxii. B Then was sene the sege of the tymbre house. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxiii^v The Spaniardes with theyr ordenaunce beate downe a timber walle. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cassandra The treason of the tymber horse at the siege of Troye. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 23 The making of Timber partitions. 1700 R. Sinclair in Leisure Hour (1883) 205/2 Timber cups and dishes. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 92 A timber mallet wrought by the hand was all they had..to break the clods. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums viii. 48 The leg will be stiff for mony a day to come, and like a timmer ane for vera thrawnness. b. Scottish dialect. Unmusical; having no musical ear; dull, ‘wooden’; unimpressionable. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] > not unmusical1603 earless1605 mistuned1755 deaf1785 timber1815 untunable1851 rhythm-deaf1871 tone-deaf1894 amusical1906 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 36 He was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him. 1874 G. Outram in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets (1881) 2nd Ser. 218 The timmer limmer daurs the knife To settle her annuity. 1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred vi. 46 I regretted my own timbre tones. But I must confess to being enchanted while Louisa sang. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona vii. 75 You have the finest timber face. 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 58/1 If I were not, so far as music goes, as timber as the table there. Compounds C1. a. attributive (often two words, as in sense 8), with the sense ‘of or for timber’. timber-ash n. ΚΠ 1707Timber Ash [see timber-oak n.]. timber-bar n. timber-beam n. ΚΠ 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion v. 44 In the striking of a timber-beam at one end, the motion..may become sensible at the other. timber-boom n. ΚΠ 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. May 352/1 To haul the bigger logs to the railroad or timber-boom. timber-broker n. ΚΠ 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 23 An Observation of an Experienced Timber Broker. timber-butt n. (see butt n.⁶). ΚΠ 1608 T. Cocks Diary (1901) 32 Payde..for bringinge home my two tymber butts. timber-claim n. ΚΠ 1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 4 June Timber claims..may be purchased on better terms than in any place of equal distance from Lawrence. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 124 He took up a ‘homestead’ and a ‘timber-claim’ with the..intention of raising cattle and a family. timber colour n. ΚΠ 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 84 Frames..gilded, the ground a Timber colour. timber-crib n. (see crib n. 14). ΚΠ 1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 11 A timber-crib which was going to run a rapid. timber-culture n. ΚΠ 1887 Daily News 3 Nov. 5/4 Buying under the homestead and timber-culture laws. timber elm n. ΚΠ 1707Timber Elm [see timber-oak n.]. timber-factor n. ΚΠ 1731 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 502/2 James Jelly..Timber-Factor and Wharfinger. timber forest n. timber growth n. ΚΠ 1968 Ceiba XIV. 29 (heading) Forecasting timber growth by the point center extension modification of the Bitterlich system. timber harvest n. ΚΠ 1969 U.S. Forest Service Resource Bull. No. pnw30 (title) 1968 Washington timber harvest. † timber-haw n. Obsolete (see haw n.¹). ΚΠ 1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 387 For cariage of xxxj lodes of lome..in to the tembre haw. 1457 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f/ xxv/2 Wharfes kranes tymbre hawes. timber-house n. ΚΠ 1535Tymbre house [see sense 8a]. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 29 Dec. (1855) 149 Women's schoes, tymber heilled, of the best sort. 1723 B. Mandeville Search Nature of Society in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 419 If..Ships should always have fine Weather,..Ships would last as long as Timber-Houses. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xii. 170 A roomy timber house, beautifully thatched with palm. timber jinker n. Australian (see jinker n.²). ΚΠ 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 1 Along the tracks heavy timber-jinkers groaned on their way to the Ironbark Sawmill. 1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 57/2 (advt.) Quality trucks at lowest prices..also semi trailers, semi tippers, low-loaders, timber jinkers, tippers. timber-land n. ΚΠ 1654 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1883) II. 55 Howses fence or gardens, Tymber Lands broaken & vnbroaken. 1804 P. Gass Jrnl. 26 Aug. (1807) ii. 31 We..passed some timber land on the south side. 1871 Rep. Indian Affairs (1872) 301 Funds were furnished to clear up timber-lands for their use. 1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 15 Ownership of timberlands by the forest products industry..grew by almost 10 million acres in the past twenty-five years. timber-log n. ΚΠ ?1530Tymber log [see sense 8a]. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie viii. 44 That there is no more zeal in vs than in a timberlogge. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. i. 32 What are become of those two Timber-loggs that he us'd to wear for Leggs? timber management n. ΚΠ 1969 U.S. Forest Service Research Paper No. so 40. 1 (title) 29 years of selection timber management on the Crossett Experimental Forest. timber-market n. ΚΠ 1477 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 141 The wod and tymmer merket. 1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 39 This model could be implemented empirically on a data set for which information on both the land and timber markets were available. timber-mell n. (see mell n.¹). ΚΠ 1720 A. Ramsay Poems 351 Hercules, wi's Timber Mell, Plays rap upo' the Yates of Hell. timber-merchant n. ΚΠ c1689 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 206 John Martyr, timber merchant. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 70 He lived some time as a clerk to a timber-merchant. 1946 A. R. M. Lower Colony to Nation 209 The timber merchants..bought square timber and deals..to ship them to England. timber-mill n. ΚΠ 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 702/2 Tasmania prides itself on its..giant timber-mills. timber-monger n. ΚΠ 1275 Memoranda, K.R. 2 & 3 Edw. I, 11 b (P.R.O.) Recognicio Iohannis le Tymbermongere. timber-nail n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tymber nayle, impago. timber-oak n. ΚΠ 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 106 In the above Scheme, the first Column is the Names of the Fields,..the third the number of Timber Oaks, the fourth the Timber Ash, the fifth the Timber Elms. timber-patch n. ΚΠ 1886 P. G. Ebbutt Emigrant Life Kansas 96 We could not..get down to our timber patch. timber-plank n. ΚΠ 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. vi. 14 Make thee an arke of timber planke. timber-post n. ΚΠ a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iv. 213 Piles and Timberposts are set in the waters. timber preservation n. ΚΠ 1966 Encycl. N.Z. I. 724/1 As building authorities have rightly been unwilling to accept this non-durable sap-timber, a sizable timber preservation industry has grown up. timber production n. ΚΠ 1968 Wisconsin Agric. Exper. Sta. Research Bull. No. 272. 1 (heading) Mycorrhizae: their role in tree nutrition and timber production. timber-raft n. ΚΠ 1818 F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xiii. 118 The frequent sail, or heavy timber-raft, ‘floating many a rood’. 1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) v. 225 The large timber rafts which descend the St. Lawrence. timber-shade n. ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §936 Plaine Champaignes..Or else Timber-Shades, as in Forrests. timber-ship n. ΚΠ 1704 London Gaz. No. 4005/2 Her Majesty's Ship the Shoreham, having under her Convoy 4 Timber Ships. timber-sled n. ΚΠ 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. ii. 71 The snow affords a road..where the timber-sled, with its ponderous log, runs glibly down to the creek. timber-slide n. ΚΠ 1836 Bytown (Ottawa) Gaz. 21 July 2/5 This improvement with many others (amongst the rest a timber slide at the Chats) the country owes to..George Buchannan. 1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 287 The timber-slides, by which the lumber from the upper river passes down..into the navigable water below. timber-trade n. ΚΠ 1732 in Cal. of State Papers Colonial Series, Amer. & W. Indies 1732 (1939) XXXIX. 243 Abundance of saw-mills are erecting for the timber trade. 1855 A. Morris Canada iv. 64 A new branch of the timber trade has been established during the present year. timber truck n. ΚΠ 1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt iii. 23 These pipes..afforded excellent substitutes for bridges, wherever it was necessary for a road to be made for the timber-trucks. 1976 M. Birmingham Heat of Sun vi. 75 The timber trucks—great articulated monsters each carrying thirty-odd tons of timber, usually in the form of three huge logs. timber value n. ΚΠ 1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 9/2 What bearing has the presence, or the increase, of woodpeckers upon the problem of timber-values? 1981 Bull. Yale Univ. School Forestry No. 92. 33 Some timber values must be foregone to obtain additional nontimber values. timber-wain n. ΚΠ 1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad iv. 59 The creaking timber-wain. timber-wright n. ΚΠ c1450 Cov. Myst. xv. 6 I..am a pore tymbre wryht [MS. wryth], born of the blood of Davyd. b. Objective. (a) timber-borer n. ΚΠ 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. viii. 235 The most extensive family..of timber-borers are the capricorn beetles. timber-cutter n. ΚΠ 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 30 Fires..occasioned by the hunters and timber-cutters, who burn the woods to clear them of under-wood. timber-devourer n. ΚΠ 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 430 In the stag-beetle, and some other timber-devourers. timber-feller n. ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 79 When in hill-environ'd vales the timber-feller takes A sharp set stomach to his meat. a1970 E. M. Forster Life to Come (1972) 74 There was a tolerable road, made by the timber-fellers. timber-floater n. ΚΠ 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. xvii. 398 The shelter of timber-floaters. timber-harvester n. ΚΠ 1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Sept. 86/2 The..economic arguments of timber-harvesters. timber-worker n. ΚΠ 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 239 Some pine which timber-workers have cut down. (b) timber-boring adj. ΚΠ 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 235 A little timber-boring beetle. timber-carrying adj. timber-cutting adj. timber-devouring adj. ΚΠ 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 146 A small timber-devouring beetle. timber-eating adj. ΚΠ 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. viii. 232 Timber-eating beetles. timber-floating adj. ΚΠ 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 205 The Gambia timber-floating industry. timber-harvesting n. ΚΠ 1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Sept. 86/1 It may also be that top park administrators..apply the terminology and techniques of timber harvesting to areas in which the primary use is recreational. timber-producing adj. ΚΠ 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 3 The approximate extent of timber-producing forests. c. Instrumental and parasynthetic. timber-built adj. ΚΠ 1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) II. xii. 203 An old timber-built cottage. timber-ceilinged adj. ΚΠ 1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 226 A handsome timber-ceiling'd hall. timber-covered adj. ΚΠ 1895 Outing 27 44/2 Enclosed between three great peaks—one timber-covered to its top. † timber-heeled adj. Obsolete timber-laden adj. timber-lined adj. ΚΠ 1856 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 225 You timber-lined sides! You distant ships. 1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 95 The walls of the shaft were..timber-lined. timber-propt adj. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 It chanc'd the Stack he faddom't thrice, Was timmer-propt for thrawin. timber-skeletoned adj. timber-strewn adj. C2. Special combinations. See also timberman n., timber-tree n., etc. timber beast n. North American a logger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1919 Camp Worker 26 Apr. 5/2 A large number of our city folk imagine that a ‘timber beast’ has just about as much need for brain as a Canadian soldier in Siberia has for refrigeration machinery. 1975 J. Gores Hammett (1976) xiii. 93 They thought he was a timber beast out of Seattle. timber-beetle n. any beetle which, in the larval or the perfect state, is destructive to timber. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle) timber-capricorn1803 timber-beetle1841 bark-borer1859 bark-beetle1862 pin borer1890 scolytid1890 timberman1894 engraver beetle1896 ambrosia beetle1897 pinhole borer1916 shot-hole borer1916 1841–52 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (1862) 58 The first was obtained by beating the limbs of some forest-tree. It may be called Lymexylon sericeum, the silky timber-beetle. timber berth n. Canadian a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > licensed timber berth1837 timber-limit1854 1837 Times (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 17 Jan. 22/1 The selling of Crown lands by auction—and the disposal of the timber berths. 1957 Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Christmas 68/3 The mission bought a sawmill and set it up on a timber berth just north of the Sunchild reserve buildings. timber-brick n. a brick-shaped block of wood, inserted in brickwork. timber-capricorn n. a kind of timber-beetle (Capricorn n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle) timber-capricorn1803 timber-beetle1841 bark-borer1859 bark-beetle1862 pin borer1890 scolytid1890 timberman1894 engraver beetle1896 ambrosia beetle1897 pinhole borer1916 shot-hole borer1916 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 227 The Timber Capricorn... Feeds principally on fir timber which has been felled. timber carriage n. = timber-cart n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights drug?a1549 drug cart?a1549 drug-carriage1665 tug1706 timber carriage1747 timber-tuga1800 janker1823 jinker1860 timber-cart1884 junker1885 lumber-carrier1928 straddle carrier1950 straddle truck1958 telehandler1982 1747 E. Purefoy in Purefoy Lett. 12 May (1931) I. 41 This day I ordered the Timber Carriage to be set up by Simon Hobcroft the Carpenter. 1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady ii. iii. 110 A miller's tented waggon,..a timber-carriage, and a couple of spring-carts. timber-cart n. spec. a high-wheeled cart for carrying heavy timber, which is slung under the axles. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights drug?a1549 drug cart?a1549 drug-carriage1665 tug1706 timber carriage1747 timber-tuga1800 janker1823 jinker1860 timber-cart1884 junker1885 lumber-carrier1928 straddle carrier1950 straddle truck1958 telehandler1982 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Timber Cart... The timber, after the cart is driven over it, is raised to the axle by crank-gearing and tackle. timber-chain n. an iron chain used in hauling timber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > chain for moving logs timber-chain1707 jack ladder1871 jack chain1878 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 308 The quickest way of pulling them [shrubs and bushes] up, is to inclose in a Timber-Chain as many of them as you can, and to clap to them a Team of Horses. timber cruise n. North American = cruise n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber timber cruise1933 timber cruising1933 1933 E. Merrick True North 319 The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by..their timber cruises. 1949 Boston Globe 17 July (Fiction Mag.) 8/1 Hard years in mine and timber cruise had given Flood a certain steadiness and maturity. 1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night (1957) iii. 33 Someone offered me a job on a timber cruise up in the north Ontario bush. timber-cruiser n. [cruiser n. 3] North American a timber prospector. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber > prospector cruiser1893 timber-cruiser1894 1894 Cent. Mag. Mar. 671/2 The timber-cruiser is a hero... The location of a choice tract of timber is a secret to be guarded with his life. 1981 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxvii. 5 In 1890 the area was inhabited only by a few transient timber cruisers and mineral prospectors. timber cruising n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > prospecting for timber timber cruise1933 timber cruising1933 1933 Meccano Mag. Mar. 195/1 Another activity confined largely to the Eastern Lines is ‘timber cruising’, which consists of the surveying and mapping out of various forest areas. 1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night (1957) xviii. 143 Winter was a good time for timber cruising. A pair of snow-shoes would carry you anywhere. timber-dog n. a short wrought iron rod with both ends turned down and sharpened, for driving into and holding together timbers in tunneling or the timbering of trenches. timber-doodle n. (a) U.S. local, the American woodcock, Philohela minor ( Cent. Dict. 1891); (b) slang spirituous liquor. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] water of life?c1450 burning watera1475 watera1475 aqua vitae1542 spirit1559 strong water1615 hot waters1616 spirituous liquor1659 spirit1663 fire1707 tape1725 strunt1786 hard stuff1789 firewater1799 fool's water1815 fool water1837 spirituous liquor1842 timber-doodle1842 lightning1858 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Scolopax (woodcock) > scolopax minor woodcockc1050 wood-snitec1050 timber-doodle1842 Labrador twister1877 wood-snipe1887 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 141 Mint Julep, Sherry-cobbler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks. 1856 Spirit of Times 25 Oct. 129/1 While we have been dosing timberdoodles with infinitesimal blue pills, they shall have..been doctoring bruins. 1873 Punch 17 May 201/2 Any description of beverage possessing the properties of American ‘timberdoodle’. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Oct. 41/1 Any hunter who has ever overheated his shotgun barrel trying to down the elusive timberdoodle knows..of the erratic flight of the woodcock. timber drive n. North American an organized floating of loose timber down a waterway; a quantity of timber so floated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 23 The head-driver of a timber-drive leads a disorderly army. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 616/1 I caught sight..of a second log, followed by a third and yet others in an apparently endless procession. I had never encountered a timber drive before. 1957 B. Hutchison Canada 101 He had heard only vague rumors of the old timber drives in the days of Peter Emberley. timber-driver n. one who is engaged in transporting timber from the forest. ΚΠ 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 616/1 Timber-drivers. timber due n. Canadian a tax paid to the government on each tree taken out of a timber berth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tax timber due1883 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on other commodities boscage1483 maletent1543 stackage1587 powder tax1775 newspaper stamp duty1815 newspaper stamp1826 timber due1883 carbon tax1979 1883 J. Fraser Shanty Life Backwoods of Canada 87 How easily this could be balanced in the treasury accounts by the smallest additional fraction upon timber dues. 1936 A. R. M. Lower Settlement & Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada 77 To Crown timber dues was added ‘timber licence’, ‘timber-limit’, or ‘timber-berth’ arrangement. timber-drug n. a carriage for timber. ΚΠ 1917 Isle of Ely & Wisbech Adv. 28 Nov. 6 Defendant..asked if he had a pair of timber drugs he could hire. timber-fall n. a mass of fallen trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [noun] > fallen or uprooted rower1442 windfall1464 root-fall1584 down timber1837 deadfall1883 uproot1891 timber-fall1897 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 289 We climbed up one hill,..went through our athletic sports over sundry timber falls, and struck down into the ravine. timber-frame n. †(a) timber for use in frames (frame n. 6); (b) see quot. 1877; (c) attributive = timber-framed adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > building wood > for specific use framing timber1522 studding1588 timber-frame1703 frame1821 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > gang-saw gang-saw1804 stock-gang1875 Yankee gang1875 timber-frame1877 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 237 7s. which indeed is the common price for sawing a good large siz'd Timber-frame..per Load. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Timber-frame, a gang-saw; the name by which it is known in England. 1967 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 32/2 Timber-frame houses are composed of lightweight sections and therefore are easy to erect. timber-framed adj. having a frame of timber, framed in wood. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 179/2 Along a whole range of lofty timber-framed roofs. 1904 Essex Rev. XIII. 215 The house is timber-framed in oak, standing on plinth of brick and septaria. timber-framing n. the construction of buildings having frames of timber. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > manner of construction > specific post and pan1517 superedification1610 superstructing1654 trabeation1831 post and petrail1867 post and tan1890 skeleton construction1891 flat-slab construction1906 unit construction1909 prefabrication1932 site assembly1941 sandwich construction1944 post and panel1954 prefabbing1954 post and beam1958 jettying1963 system building1964 biotecture1966 timber-framing1967 post and plaster1997 Passivhaus1998 1967 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 32/2 Timber-framing has completely overcome the postwar ‘pre-fab’ image of industrialized building. timber-getter n. Australian a lumberman or logger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1912 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 248 The professional timber-getter is a Southern miscreant. 1970 M. Kelly Spinifex vi. 103 The word's Timber Getter, not lumberjack. timber-grouse n. U.S. any species of grouse frequenting woodlands. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of timber-grouse1891 1891 Cent. Dict. Timber-grouse. 1894 Outing 24 305/1 We..had great fun with the timber-grouse and the sage-hens. timber-head n. (a) Nautical the head or end of any timber; spec. such an end rising above the deck and serving as a bollard: see c1860 at kevel n.² 2; (b) slang (rare) = blockhead n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > end of any timber timber-head1794 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > end of any timber > rising above the deck timber-head1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 287 The head-rail and timber-head, on the fore side of the cathead. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 78 We went aft and manned the slip-rope which came through the stern port with a turn round the timber-heads. 1849 H. Melville Redburn vi. 45 You timber-head..take this bucket here, and go up the rigging. timber-headed adj. wooden-headed, dense or obtuse in intellect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 74 Such timber-headed fellows that..they could make noe accurate observations. timber-hitch n. a knot used in attaching a rope to a log or spar for hoisting or towing it: see quot. 1815. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > other knots water knot1496 draw knot1635 slip-knot1679 tie-knot1800 timber-hitch1815 thorough-put1829 fisherman's bendc1860 Celtic knot1865 lark's head1866 waterman's knot1866 packing knot1871 fisherman's knot1876 prusik knot1937 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) 195/2 A Timber Hitch..is made by taking the end of a rope round the spar, or timber head, leading it under and over the standing part, and passing several turns round its own part. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 2 What is a timber hitch used for? For bending to a spar, to haul it along, sending it aloft, &c. 1893 F. M. Crawford Children of King II. xii. 214 He slipped the line under the bags of ballast, and made a timber-hitch with the end, hauling it well taut. timber-hitch v. (transitive) to make fast with a timber-hitch. ΚΠ 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 87 The standing part is timber-hitched round the yard. timberjack n. North American a lumberman or logger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1916 A. Bridle Sons of Canada 5 He was a timberjack in the hardwood bush of western Ontario. 1953 D. Cushman Timberjack 127 You boys hired out to be timberjacks. timber jam n. = log-jam n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > log-jam jam1805 log-jam1885 timber jam1888 1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia 186 On one of the huge timber jams which so often occurred we passed close to a wolverene. 1910 J. London Lost Face 133 Crossing a timber jam on the frozen bed of the Teelee, the sled suffered a wrenching capsize. 1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself iv. 101 The removal of the key-log in a timber-jam starts the whole pile. timber-jumper n. Hunting slang a horse good at jumping over gates and fences. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > that jumps well timber-jumper1832 timber-topper1883 lepper1907 1832 Q. Rev. 47 237 ‘Now for the timber-jumper,’ cries Osbaldeston, pleased to find himself upon Clasher. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1902) VI. 498 I never put my leg over such a timber-jumper in my life. timber-leader n. Coal Mining (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > mine safety workers fireman1817 fire boss1869 safety man1877 timber-leader1891 1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Timber-leader,..a person whose duty is to ensure the sufficiency of props, planks, brattice, and crown trees, supplied to each hewer in northern coal mines. timber licence n. Canadian a licence to cut timber on a timber berth on payment of dues to the government. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > licence to fell timber licence1921 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Mar. 5/2 It was a wide open invitation to the speculator to buy up large numbers of timber licences in arrears. 1966 Canad. Forest Industries Nov. 55/1 Amendments made to the Forest Act in 1965 now permit: Application of the cost of timber sales to the timber licence as a whole, or to cutting permits issued pursuant to the licence. timber-limit n. (a) Canadian see quot. 1876; (b) any tract of forested land suitable for lumbering; (c) = timberline n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering wood-lot1658 timber-limit1854 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > licensed timber berth1837 timber-limit1854 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > tree-limit timber-limit1854 timberline1867 tree-line1893 tree-limit1934 1854 T. C. Keefer Ottawa 56 No timber limits are without water—for it is by water alone that the timber can reach its market. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 The Governments of the different provinces [Canada] grant licences..to cut timber over vast tracts of land, under the name of ‘timber limits’. 1890 Grip (Toronto) 8 Feb. 83/2 A Journal..is..agitated lest, by disputing our timber-limits.., the Ontario Government shall bring the province to direct taxation. 1898 W. T. Jennings Rep. Routes to Yukon 9 The whole valley and slopes to the timber limit are clothed with cotton-wood, spruce and alder trees. 1914 H. Bindloss Intriguers 108 We want to get as far north as the timber limit. 1960 Ottawa Citizen 18 June 38/5 A Blackfoot Indian band in 1892 surrendered a timber limit in Alberta. timber-lode n. in Feudal Law, a service by which a tenant was bound to carry wood felled in the forests to the lord's house (cf. bord-lode n.). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligations of tenants > other obligations of tenants bridgeworkOE bedrip1226 timber-lodec1400 suit and service1416 suling-man1440 presence and suit1504 homage and suit?a1509 sect of court1546 wood-carriage1557 suit service1579 sword-service1630 society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service bedrip1226 needbedripc1284 sorren1289 penny-eartha1300 corvée1340 plough-boon1388 timber-lodec1400 carriage1423 sickle-boon1438 foreign servicea1475 average1489 castle-guard1576 boonage1610 reaping day1657 reap day1663 archery1691 boon-work1883 bene-rip- c1400 Will. Thorne Chron. ann. 1364 Pro schippeshere, timberlode & bordlode, vel cariare extra waldam per mare. timber-mare n. a kind of wooden horse on which offending soldiers and others were made to ride as a punishment. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > wooden horse wooden horse1629 horse1648 timber-marec1650 wooden mare1819 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 290 He causit big wp..ane tymber meir, quhairvpone runnaget knaves and runaway soldiouris sould ryde. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Horse A wooden machine which soldiers ride by way of punishment. It is sometimes called a timber-mare. timber-pond n. a recess in a dock or harbour where timber may be floated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > site for storing floating timber timber-pond1840 rafting works1886 holding ground1957 1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 9 The timber-pond to which I allude is at this spot. timber rattler n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus or member of genus Crotalus > rattlesnake rattlesnake1624 cascabel1758 prairie rattlesnake1817 rattler1827 water rattle1832 mangrove cascabel1858 horned rattlesnake1870 sidewinder1875 prairie rattler1878 diamond rattlesnake1883 water rattler1888 diamond-back1907 timber rattler1936 1936 E. G. Barnard Rider Cherokee Strip 51 Some called it the timber rattler or the black diamond rattler. 1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 223 The only other poisonous snake around here is the timber rattler. timber rattlesnake n. a venomous snake, Crotalus horridus horridus, found in the north-eastern United States and marked with dark bands or blotches. ΚΠ 1950 Chicago Tribune 16 Mar. ii. 12/2 With him to the zoo went five timber rattlesnakes. 1982 J. S. Borthwick Case of Hook-Billed Kites (1983) xlviii. 171 He swept from the timber rattlesnake..to the western diamondback. timber-road n. a road laid with timber for wheels to run upon, an early form of railroad. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] tram-road1800 timber-road1803 tramway1825 tram1850 trackway1858 1803 Naval Chron. 9 279 Four low wheels,..to run..upon a rail-way or timber-road. timber-rot n. (a) rotting of wood caused by various hymenomycetous fungi; (b) New England a hot-house disease of cucumbers ( Funk's Stand. Dict.). timber-scribe n. [scribe n.²] see quots. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > marking tools > [noun] > scoring style1659 scorer1688 ruling engine1826 scrieve1828 timber-scribe1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Timber-scribe, a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking logs and casks. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Timber-scribe, a scoring-tool for timber; a race-knife. timber-sow n. a woodlouse or sow-bug, Oniscus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus lockchestera1400 sow14.. lugdora1425 louk?a1450 lockchestc1450 cheslip1530 palmer1538 chestworm1544 Robin Goodfellow's louse1552 monk's peason1558 cheslock1574 porcelet1578 swine louse1579 hog-louse1580 multiped1601 kitchen-bob1610 woodlouse1611 loop1612 millipede1612 timber-sow1626 cheeselog1657 sow-louse1658 thurse-louse1658 onisc1661 monkey pea1682 slater1684 slatter1739 sow-bug1750 Oniscus1806 pig louse1819 hob-thrush1828 land-slater1863 pig's louse1888 wall-louse1899 oniscoid1909 chucky-pig1946 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §692 Creatures bred of Putrefaction;..as Earth-Wormes, Timber-Sowes, Snails. † timber-stairs n. slang Obsolete the pillory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 c1750 in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 181 Up stairs, down stairs, Timber stairs fears me. † timber-taster n. Obsolete a dockyard official formerly employed in testing the measurement, soundness, and quality of timber. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers rough-hewer1574 hoop-shaver1688 timber-taster1803 spaller1843 pump log borer1857 stamp-cutter1858 creosoter1889 timberman1890 worm-eater1890 slabby1907 1803 T. Netherton in Naval Chron. 15 220 The timber tasters..have been paid at the same rate..as the labourers. 1806 3rd Report Revising Commission The several Measurers, Timber Tasters, Converters, and Plug Keepers [etc.], are to be called Single-stationed-men. timber-toe n. (also timber-toes) a wooden-legged man. timber-toe n. slang a wooden leg. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg leg1574 wooden leg1582 stump1679 peg leg1769 timber-toe1785 peg1826 tram1836 jury-leg1850 pylon1919 the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg > person having timber-toe1785 peg leg1872 peg-legger1915 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Timber toe, a man with a wooden leg. 1830 T. Hood in Forget me Not 415 Why did he plant his timber toe on my toe. timber-toed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [adjective] > having artificial leg jury-legged1751 timber-toed1814 tree-legged1838 wooden-legged1840 peg-legged1861 pin-legged1884 1814 Sailor's Return ii. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 343 The old timber-toed pensioners. timber-topper n. = timber-jumper n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > that jumps well timber-jumper1832 timber-topper1883 lepper1907 1883 Standard 12 Feb. 2/6 The champion timber-topper of the day. timber-topping n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > jumping fences fencing1827 timber-topping1904 1904 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 9/3 An animal who is to be condemned to the drudgery of timber-topping. timber-tower n. a wooden tower on wheels formerly used in sieges. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > siege-tower belfryc1300 mate-griffonc1330 summercastle1382 bastillec1400 towerc1440 summertowera1450 bestial1488 bastide1523 turret1565 timber-tower1614 helepole1770 cat-castle1861 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iii. 111 Here, th' Enginer begins his Ram to rear;..Brings here his Fly-Bridge, there his batt'ring Crow: Besides high Timber-Towers, on rowling Feet Mov'd and remov'd. timber-tug n. see quot. a1800. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights drug?a1549 drug cart?a1549 drug-carriage1665 tug1706 timber carriage1747 timber-tuga1800 janker1823 jinker1860 timber-cart1884 junker1885 lumber-carrier1928 straddle carrier1950 straddle truck1958 telehandler1982 a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Timber-tug (Kent), the carriage of a waggon for conveying timber, with a long perch, which may be adapted to any length, or shortened. 1977 N. Freeling Gadget iii. 142 Sturdy horses could haul carts, timber-tugs, sleds in winter. † timber-turner n. Obsolete humorously used for a player at bowls. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > player bowler?1518 timber-turner1599 sidesman1843 ground-bowler1874 soft second1905 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C2 These timber turners, these trowle the bowles, these greene-men. timber wheels n. (see quot. 1905). ΚΠ 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging 42 Logging wheels, a pair of wheels, usually about 10 feet in diameter, for transporting logs. Syn. :..timber wheels. timber-wolf n. North American the grey wolf, Canis lupus occidentalis, as distinct from the prairie-wolf. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > varieties of lobo1859 timber-wolf1860 loafer?1877 Japanese wolf1878 red wolf1942 1860 Nor' Wester (Red River Settlement) 28 Feb. 4/2 We also saw a large timber wolf (not a wolf made of wood, but a gentleman who inhabits prairies and wooded country). 1891 Cent. Dict. Timber-wolf. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 12/1 Last year the female timber-wolf in the Zoological Gardens produced eight cubs. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies iii. 30 The grey wolf, also known as timber wolf and formerly as buffalo wolf, is grey in colour with a liberal sprinkling of black and brown in the coat. 1964 E. P. Walker et al. Mammals of World II. 1152/1 Two species of wolves are recognized: C. lupus, the gray or timber wolf, and C. niger, the red wolf. 1980 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 19 In the warehouse, red and silver fox furs hang beside the sleek pelts of lynx, timber wolf and beaver. timber-worm n. a ‘worm’ or larva injurious to timber. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > which bores in wood Teredo1398 timber-worm1530 wood-worm1540 moch1637 wood grub1956 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Tymbre worme. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 23 Before thou wast, were Timber-worms in price? 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1083 The Philosopher saith that Kis is a little Creature bred in wood, like Worms bred in Corn; the English call them Timber-worms, because they are seldome in any wood but that which is cut, and prepared for building. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 55 Cossi, Timber-worms. Derivatives timber-like adj. ΚΠ 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 191/1 The right to timber and timber-like trees belongs to the landlord. Draft additions 1993 Trees collectively, in their natural state and not considered as building material; an area of woodland or forest. Occasionally figurative, denoting a haven of rustic simplicity. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > collectively arbory1366 timber1792 tree-life1898 1792 B. Netherland Let. 6 July in B. H. Young Hist. Jessamine County, Kentucky (1898) 49 [He] shot him in the arm and ran off into the timber. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. ix. 152 A spur of willows running out from the timber, indicated the presence of water. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life i. 13 He disappeared in the timber and old-man salt-bush. 1912 R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone (1913) 152 Oh, I want to go back to the timber again—I'm scared of the terrible town. 1957 Times 12 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p.xvi/1 Northward..the timber attenuates into a sub-Arctic forest (taiga) and finally gives way to the true Arctic tundra. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 131 The..roos..moved off slowly into the trees. Hunter started the engine and..cautiously turned along the edge of the timber. Draft additions March 2020 timber circle n. Archaeology (the remains of) a prehistoric monument consisting of a circular or elliptical timber structure (usually interpreted as a circle of large free-standing timber posts), typically surviving only as one or more rings of postholes; cf. woodhenge n.Neolithic and Bronze Age examples of such monuments are sometimes located within an enclosure formed by a surrounding bank with an internal ditch (see henge n. 2) or other earthwork. ΚΠ 1912 Trans. Lancs & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 1911 29 181 The Rev. S. E. Collinson..read a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, on ‘The Bleasdale Timber Circles and some suggestions as to their purpose’. 1927 M. E. Cunnington in Antiquity 1 92 (title) Prehistoric timber circles. 1976 A. Burl Stone Circles Brit. Isles v. 123 This circle was eventually replaced by a simple embanked timber circle, and this, in turn, was succeeded by a ring-cairn seemingly of the Early Bronze Age. 2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 22/1 The stones that we see now [at Stonehenge] were erected..within a much older earthwork that once probably contained a timber circle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). timbern.² Brit. /ˈtɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈtɪmbər/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s tymbre, Middle English, 1800s timbre, 1500s–1600s tymber, 1500s– timber. β. ScottishMiddle English tymmyr, tymire, Middle English–1500s tymir, 1500s tymyr. Etymology: In Old French timbre (1350 in Godefroy), medieval Latin timbrium , timbria (1207 Rouen, in Du Cange, also 1314 Upsala); Middle Low German timber (13th cent.), timmer , Low German timmer ; Middle High German zimber (13th cent.), German zimmer ; Norse timbr (apparently 13th cent. in Vigfusson), Swedish timmer , Danish simmer (from German). Supposed to be ultimately a special use of timber n.¹, which probably arose in the fur trade in Low German, whence it spread into other languages. The immediate source of Middle English timbre appears to have been French. For the reason of the name compare quot. 1597, and see tavelin n. But some suppose a sense ‘heap, pile’: see Schade, and Falk & Torp; others suspect that it was an eastern word. A definite quantity of furs, a package containing 40 skins (i.e. half-skins, 20 pair) of ermine, sable, marten, and the like. (After a numeral usually timber, less commonly timbers.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > bundle or quantity timbera1150 mantle1420 tavelin1439 pane1612 turn1891 a1150 Assisa Regis David. R. Scott. in Acta Parl. Scot. I. 667 De custuma tymbriarum. De tymbria uulpium cirogrillorum Martinorum Murelegorum Sabinorum Beueriorum uel similium. De vnaquaque timbria ad exitum. iiij. d. [15th c. transl., Of a tymmyr of skynnis of toddis quhytredijs mertrikis cattis beueris sable ferrettis or swylk vthyr; of ilk tymmyr at the outpassing iiij d.]. c1290 Fleta ii. xii. §8 Lunda autem pellium continet triginta duo timbria. 1390–1 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 92 Pro j furrura de grys..de vj tymbre, et de ij tymbre de meniuer, xij nobles. 1390–1 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 93 Pro ij furruris de grys,..quolibet de xij tymbre. 1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 31 iiij tymire of grece to purfell that govne,..the tymire contenand iij dosane iiij bestis. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 133 xxxij tymbres off ermyns. 1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 201 For xij tymir of gray grece to lyne the samyn, ilk tymir contenand xl bestis. 1566 A. Edwards Let. 26 Apr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 378 I haue further receiued two timbers of sables. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. ii. 122 The prince hath fiue yardes of cloth for his gowne and whood..beside fiue timber of the finest mineuer. [margin] A timber conteineth fortie skins. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Timbria Pellium..ane Timmer of skinnes: That is, swa monie as is inclused within twa broddes of Timmer, quhilk commounlie conteinis fourtie skinnes: In the quhilk manner, merchandes vsis to bring hame Martrick, Sable, and vther coastlie skinnes and Furringes. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. ii. 256 Of Furrs, Fitches, Grays, Jennets, Martins, Mincks, Sables, 40 Skins is a Timber; other Skins five Score to the Hundred. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 41 Ermine per Timber of 20 Couple. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 380/1 In some skins, however, the timbre counts to 120. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 8/2 Ten years ago..ermine..cost 28s. to 30s. per timber of forty skins. The price for a timber to-day..is 176s. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). timberv. Brit. /ˈtɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈtɪmbər/ Forms: see timber n.¹ Etymology: Old English timbran and timbrian = Old Saxon timbrian (Middle Dutch, Dutch timmeren ), Old High German zimberen , zimbarôn (Middle High German zimber(e)n , German zimmern ), Old Norse timbra (Swedish timbra , Danish tömmre ), Gothic and Old Germanic timr-jan , < tim-r- timber n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To build, construct, make (as a house, ship, etc.); spec.* (in later use) to build or construct of wood. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] timbera900 workOE betimberOE craftOE buildc1275 lifta1300 stagec1330 upraise1338 wright1338 edifya1340 to make outa1382 to make upa1382 biga1400 housea1400 risea1400 telda1400–50 to work upa1450 redress1481 levy1495 upmake1507 upbuild1513 exstruct?c1550 construct1663 to run up1686 practise1739 to lay up1788 elevate1798 to put up1818 to lay down1851 practicate1851 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xvii. [xxiii.] 232 Neowan stowe mynster to timbrenne oð þe cirican. OE Genesis 1692 Weall stænenne up forð timbran. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 18 Ofer þisne stan ic timbrige mine cyricean. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13368 To timmbrenn himm an haliȝ hus. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2015 Sche chold sone be bi-schet..In a ful tristy tour timbred for þe nones. a1400–50 Alexander 2110 (Dublin) Þar fand he tembret on þe topp & tyldit vp a cyte. 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Contabulo Contabulare murum turribus..to make towers, to tymber plankes euen with the walles. 1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 128 Here had Guillaume timbered and thatched a rustic habitation. b. absol.; spec. of a bird, to build (scil. its nest). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > nest or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > build nest timberc897 nestleOE c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care lviii. 445 On ðæm botle, ðær ðær we timbran willen. a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 Me mæig on sumera..tymbrian, wudian, weodian, faldian. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 352 Moche merueilled me..who tauȝte hem [birds] on trees to tymbre so heighe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8763 Quils he was timberand to þis thing. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables lxxii. 71 There was a Bargain struck up betwixt an Eagle and a Fox. The One Took-up in a Thicket of Brushwood, and the Other Timber'd upon a Tree hard by. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Timber (in Falconry), to nestle, to make a Nest; as Birds of Prey do. †c. with adverb complement: To build up. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 156 They timbre vp drie stickes together. †2. figurative. To construct, frame, effect, do, form, cause, bring about, bring into existence or operation (any action, condition, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE timberc897 letc900 rearOE doOE i-wendeOE workOE makeOE bringc1175 raisec1175 shapec1315 to owe (also have) a wold (also on wield)a1325 procurec1330 purchasec1330 causec1340 conform1377 performa1382 excite1398 induce1413 occasionate?c1450 occasionc1454 to bring about1480 gara1500 to bring to passc1513 encause1527 to work out1534 inferc1540 excitate?1549 import1550 ycause1563 frame1576 effect1581 to bring in1584 effectuatea1586 apport?1591 introduce1605 create1607 generate1607 cast1633 efficiate1639 conciliate1646 impetrate1647 state1654 accompass1668 to bring to bear1668 to bring on1671 effectivate1717 makee1719 superinduce1837 birth1913 the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form i-schapeOE shapeOE markc1330 forge1382 kneadc1400 frame?1518 fashion?1553 labour1578 appropriate1594 to shape out1600 elaborate1611 produce1611 moulda1616 fabric1623 coin1627 timber1646 laborate1662 condition1853 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxiii. 215 Ða godan weorc ðe he..ær..timbrede. a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) cxxviii[i]. 2 [3] Ofer minum bæce bitere ongunnon þa firenfullan facen timbrian. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 100 Þis hont..haueð itimbred me þe blisse ofheouene. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3300 Hit wes vmbe fif winter..seoððen he þas seorȝe him-seolfen hæfde itimbred. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3742 That traytoure..That this tresone has tymbyrde to my trewe lorde. c1450 Bone Flor. 560 That hath tymberde all my teene. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. v. 14 Heads that were never timber'd for it. †3. To make up or add fuel to (a fire). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > make a fire > add fuel to (a fire) beetc1275 timber1486 mend?a1505 stoke1735 to make up1781 bank1825 chunk1840 to stack up1892 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij b A ffyre Tymbered. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A^v Tymbre that fyre. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 758/2 I tymber a fyre, je accoustre, or je mets a poynt. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 85/1 Timber the Fire, is to mend the Fire, make it burn better, by putting more Fuel or Wood or Coles to it. 4. To furnish with timber. (See also timbered adj.) †a. To supply or arm with spears: cf. timber n.¹ 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > arm with spears timbera1578 a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 98 The earle of Angus was weill temmert witht so money sharp speiris and lang. b. To put in or apply timber to support the roof of a mine or working, the sides of a shaft or a trench, the roof and sides of a tunnel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > line excavation sough1688 timber1702 steen1724 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 6 The more Shafts or Pits are sunk, the more Wood-work will be necessarily imployed in Timbering them. 1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 106 The lining of it [the pit shaft] with wood in order to hinder it from falling in, is timbering of it. 1844 F. W. Simms Pract. Tunnelling xii. 121 The leaving the lower part of the excavation without being timbered was not general throughout the tunnel. 1872 R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 62 The new shaft..has been sunk, timbered, and centred to a depth of 260 feet. 1904 Times 28 Jan. 10/4 The gang had to timber up the roof. c. To cover or frame with timber or wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] carpent1623 timber1850 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. i. 67 A wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 3/1 If you have the floor of the butt timbered or stoned. 5. intransitive. Of a tree: To form timber. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > be wood [verb (intransitive)] > grow wood timber1610 1610 [implied in: W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 6 The high timbring Oake dilating mightie armes in large extent. (at timbering adj.)]. †6. transitive. timber out, to divide (timber) into beams, planks, etc., suited for building. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > prepare, dress, or square timber framec1330 square1412 postc1520 timber out1628 slab1703 side1754 to bring forward1823 match1833 underhew1847 to run up1863 1628 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) To appoynte the tymber to be brought home and to be tymbered out for diuerse vses. 1637 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payed for timberinge out of our woode j s. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 69 Many men engage in undertakings, for which their heads were never squared or timbred out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c825n.²a1150v.c897
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