EGAVE

timber

About 10.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
    collect timber
  2. noun Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  3. noun 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.
    the timbers of a ship
  4. noun Material for any structure.
  5. noun The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  6. noun 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. noun The stumps.
  8. interjection Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Similar words

woodland forest timberland lumber quality tone timbre woods woody log

Often followed by

and is in for was to of from on

Word family

timbered timbering timbers timbre

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