Timber Definition
tĭmbər
timbers
noun
timbers
A building.
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Building material in general.
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Wood suitable for building houses, ships, etc., whether cut or still in the form of trees.
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Trees or forests collectively.
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A large, heavy, dressed piece of wood used in building; beam.
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verb
timbers
To provide, build, or prop up with timbers.
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(falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
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interjection
Used in a forest to signify that a cut tree is about to fall.
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adjective
Of or for timber.
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Other Word Forms of Timber
Noun
Singular:
timber
Plural:
timbersOrigin of Timber
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Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm). Cognates include Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Old Norse timbr, Gothic (timrjan, “to build”), and Latin domus.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English building, trees for building dem- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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