English Explanatory Dictionary

timber

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  2. Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  3. 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.
  4. Material for any structure.
  5. The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  6. 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.
  7. The stumps.
intj
  1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
  2. By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
verb
  1. To fit with timbers.
  2. To construct, frame, build.
  3. To light or land on a tree.
  4. To make a nest.
  5. To surmount as a timber does.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɪmbə/ [ˈtɪˑmˌbəː] tĭmʹbər /ˈtɪmbɚ/ [ˈtɪˑmˌbɚː] en-us-timber.ogg en-au-timber.ogg

Word forms

timber timbers timber! timbering timbered

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”).

Synonyms

timberland forest lumber wood beam rafter

Derived words

belly-timber Big Timber bond timber compass timber half-timber half-timbered hawse timber horn timber jack timber put some timber on shiver me timbers timber camp timber circle timberclad timber-clad timber drawer timbered timber fly timber framing timber hitch Timber Lake timberland timberline timber line timber merchant timber nigger timber rafting timber rattlesnake timber-toe timber wolf timberyard virgin timber
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