timber

Meaning

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. (informal) 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.

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. (obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
3. To light or land on a tree.
4. (obsolete) To make a nest.
5. To surmount as a timber does.

Concepts

timber

wood

lumber

log

forest

tree

woodland

timbre

plank

quality

beam

piece of wood

timberland

tone

woods

wood lumber

bole

silva

board

antler

antlers

grove

tone color

tone colour

tone quality

boards

cut timber

logs

sawed timber

trunk

stringer

balk

bolster

joist

stuff

lignum

knee

building materials

fabric

material

chunk

firewood

chip

splinter

felling

fess

fesse

stand

sylva

arbor

stock

building material

balsa

Hyphenated as

tim‧ber

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɪmbə/

Etymology

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).