timber
Plural: timbers
Noun
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- a beam made of wood
- a post made of wood
- land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- Material for any structure.
- The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
- The stumps.
- Misspelling of timbre.
Intj
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
- By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
Verb
Verb Forms: timbered, timbering, timbers
- To furnish or support a structure with wooden beams or lumber.
- To fit with timbers.
- To construct, frame, build.
- To light or land on a tree.
- To make a nest.
- To surmount as a timber does.
Examples
- collect timber
- cut down timber
- He needed to TIMBER his strategy with strong defensive words to protect his lead.
- the timbers of a ship
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).
Scrabble Score: 10
timber: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtimber: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
timber: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary