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timber
/ˈtɪmbɚ/
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What does timber mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (11)
noun
- Material for any structure.
- (informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- (slang) The stumps.
- (archaic) 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.
interjection
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
- A cry used when anything is falling over.
verb
- To fit with timbers.
- To light or land on a tree.
- To surmount as a timber does.
- (obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
- (obsolete) To make a nest.
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IPA pronunciation
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Heavily dependent on cocoa, gold, and timber exports, economic growth so far has not spread substantially to other areas of the economy.
They all knew him to be a thorough gentleman, and that in the great timber city several millions stood to his credit.
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On my way to Fochabers I passed through many thousand acres of Fir timber, and saw many deer running in these woods.’
Railroads, too, have been built to fetch in the logs from the best bodies of timber otherwise inaccessible except at great cost.
The necessary powers were accordingly obtained from Parliament, and a bridge was authorized to be built "of cast-iron, stone, brick, or timber."