timber
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home, house”), Czech dům (“house”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene dom (“home, house”), Serbo-Croatian до̑м, dȏm (“home, house”), Ukrainian дім (dim, “home, house; building”), Armenian տուն (tun, “home, house; family, household”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬨 (dam, “house”), Sanskrit दम् (dam, “house”), दम (dama, “home”).
Inflected forms:
form: timbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: timber!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: timbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: timbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: timbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: timbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: collect timber
cut down timber
Soon, he convinced his uncle to show him how to harvest ash, the local timber that—cut, hauled, sliced, and hand-pounded into thin strips—is typically used.
gloss: Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the timbers of a ship
gloss: Material for any structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The stumps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
pos: intj
examples: From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"
gloss: By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
pos: intj
examples: The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"
gloss: To fit with timbers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: timbering a roof
gloss: To construct, frame, build.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.
gloss: To light or land on a tree.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a nest.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To surmount as a timber does.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: belly-timber
betimber
Big Timber
bond timber
compass timber
half-timber
half-timbered
hawse timber
horn timber
jack timber
nontimber
poletimber
put some timber on
retimber
sawtimber
shiver me timbers
timber camp
timber circle
timber-clad
timberclad
timber drawer
timbered
timber fly
timber framing
timbergetter
timberhead
timber hitch
timberish
Timber Lake
timberland
timberless
timberlike
timber line
timberline
timberling
timberman
timber merchant
timbermonger
timber nigger
timber rafting
timber rattlesnake
timber-toe
timber wolf
timberwork
timberwright
timbery
timberyard
virgin timber
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