timber

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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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  • Blood diamonds, smuggled emeralds, timber, that is cut right from under the poorest. —  Ashraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
  • Beyond the timber was a ladder which led up to a round hole in the stone. —  030 - Spook Hole
  • Sir W. Pen proposes his and my looking out into Scotland about timber, and to use Pett there; for timber will be a good commodity this time of building the City. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • Yet it appeared in evidence that the price of the timber was about the same as such timber usually fetched in the neighbourhood, and that, upon the whole, the method of removing the bark from the trees whilst standing, and then setting it upright to dry, was as good as that of first felling the tree, and then stripping it and drying the bark on stages. —  The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
  • Look how stout the timber is all around us I'm not anything of a woodsman," joined in Brick, "but this hollow looks like a mighty snug place to me Jerry allowed himself to be persuaded All right," he said. —  The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger
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wood ·  plank ·  log ·  oak ·  brick ·  lumber ·  stone ·  iron ·  bark ·  furniture ·  trunk ·  branch

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timber:   timbers
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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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