timber
noun /ˈtɪmbə(r)/
/ˈtɪmbər/
- the timber industry
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + timber- cut
- fell
- harvest
- …
- company
- industry
- production
- …
- (also lumber especially in North American English)wood that is prepared for use in building, etc.
- houses built of timber
- a solid timber door
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- solid
- rough
- …
- length
- piece
- dress
- season
- treat
- …
- decay
- rot
- product
- merchant
- yard
- …
- [countable, usually plural] a long heavy piece of wood used in building a house or ship
- roof timbers
- The house has exposed oak timbers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- exposed
- roof
- …
- Timber!used to warn people that a tree that has been cut is about to fall
Word OriginOld English in the sense ‘a building’, also ‘building material’, of Germanic origin; related to German Zimmer ‘room’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘build’.