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Some timber on the bank of the river, for a Short distance back of this timber is a bottom Plain of four or five miles back to the hills and under the hills between them & the river this plain appeared to extend 20 or 30 miles, those Hills have but little timber, and the

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  1. noun Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
  2. noun Wood used as a building material; lumber.
  3. noun A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
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  • The mountains about are covered with timber, which is not generally of the first quality for building purposes. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
  • It consists of one piece of timber which is crooked the proper shape by nature; the end of this is sharpened, and on it is fastened a single piece of iron which has an attempt at a sharp point. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
  • The timber which is cut in the Black Forest for shipment is made up into rafts on the Rhine, but instead of being suffered to float down the stream, as in this country, is rowed by oarsmen, each raft having from sixty to eighty men attached to it. —  Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
  • I had a number of oak field-gates made, but as the timber was barely seasoned, we were afraid shrinkage might take place in the mortises and tenons, and it was an agreeable surprise to find in a year or two that nothing of the kind had happened. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • Some timber on the bank of the river, for a Short distance back of this timber is a bottom Plain of four or five miles back to the hills and under the hills between them & the river this plain appeared to extend 20 or 30 miles, those Hills have but little timber, and the —  The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
 

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wood ·  plank ·  log ·  oak ·  brick ·  lumber ·  stone ·  iron ·  bark ·  furniture ·  trunk ·  branch
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, building, trees for building; see dem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. timmer; from Middle English timber, tymber, tymbre, from Anglo-Saxon timber, stuff or material to build with, = Old Saxon timbar = OFries. timber, a building, = Dutch timmer, a room, = Middle Low German timber, timmer = Old High German zimbar, Middle High German zimber, wood to build with, timber-work, structure, dwelling, room, German zimmer, room, chamber (zimmerholz, timber, zimmermann, carpenter), = Icelandic timbr = Swedish timmer = Danish tömmer = Gothic (Moesogothic) *timrs (in the deriv. timrjan, build, timrja, builder), timber; orig. material (of wood) to build with; akin to L. domus = Greek δόμος = Sanskrit dama = Old Bulgarian domŭ, house (literally a building of wood); from the verb seen in Greek δέμειν, build: see dome.
  2. from Middle English timbren, tymbren, from Anglo-Saxon timbrian = Old Saxon timbrian, timbron = OFries. timbra, timmera = Dutch timmeren = Middle Low German timberen, timmeren = OHG-. zimbrōn, Middle High German zimbern, German zimmern = Icelandic timbra = Swedish timra = Danish tömre = Gothic (Moesogothic) timrjan, build; from the noun.
  3. Also timbre, timmer; from French timbre = Low German timmer = Middle High German zimber, German zimmer = Swedish timmer = Danish simmer (from G.), a bundle of skins; origin unknown. It has been conjectured to be a particular use of Low German timmer, etc., a room, hence ‘a roomful,’ a given number, 40 or 120 according to the animals signified: see timber.
  4. Also timbre; from Middle English *timbre, tymbre, from Old French timbre, a helmet, crest, timber, F. also stamp, = Provencal timbre = Spanish timbre = Pg, timbre, a crest, helmet; prob. so called as being shaped like a kettledrum, from Latin tympanum, a drum: see tympan, tympanum. For the change, timbre from tympanum, cf. ordre from ordinem (see order). Cf.timbre, timbre, from the same source.
  5. from timber, n.
 

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