timber /timˈbər/

1. Wood suitable for building or carpentry, whether growing or cut
2. Standing trees of oak, ash, elm, or (locally by custom) other kinds suitable for timber, forming part of an inheritance (Eng law)
3. Material generally
4. A beam or large piece of wood in a framework, of eg a house, ship, etc
5. Familiarly, a wooden object or part
6. (in pl) cricket stumps (informal)
7. A wooden leg
8. Wood (dialect)
9. Woodland, forest-land (N American)

1. Of timber
2. Wooden
3. Wooden in tone, unmusical (Scot)

1. To provide or cover with timber or beams
2. To build (obsolete)

A warning given when a tree being felled is about to fall

timˈbered adjective

1. Built, constructed, esp of wood
2. Provided with timber
3. Shored up with timber
4. (of country) wooded
5. Appar massive (Spenser)

timˈbering noun

1. Timber collectively
2. Work in timber

timˈberhead noun

1. The top of a ship's timber rising above the deck and used as a bollard
2. A bollard placed in a similar position

timber hitch see under hitch

timˈberland noun (N American)

Land covered with trees used for timber

timber line noun

The upper limit of timber trees on the mountains, etc

timˈberman noun

1. A person responsible for the timbers in a mine
2. A person who works with timber
3. Any of various longicorn beetles of the genus Acanthocinus, whose larvae live in fallen trees

timˈber-mare see under horse

timˈber-toes singular noun

A person with a wooden leg

timber tree noun

A tree suitable or grown for timber

timber wolf noun

An American variety of the common wolf, the grey wolf

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