1. timber(n = noun.substance) lumber - the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material; Array
is a kind of building material
has particulars: stock, strip, board, plank, planking
2. timber(n = noun.artifact) Array - a beam made of wood; Array
is a kind of beam
has particulars: coulisse, sternpost, stringer, two-by-four
3. timber(n = noun.artifact) Array - a post made of wood; Array
is a kind of post
4. timber(n = noun.object) forest, timberland, woodland - land that is covered with trees and shrubs; Array
is a kind of biome, dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
has particulars: greenwood, riparian forest, silva, sylva, tree farm
5. timber(n = noun.attribute) quality, timbre, tone - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
is a kind of sound property
has particulars: harmonic, resonance, color, coloration, colour, colouration, nasality, plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, shrillness, stridence, stridency, register
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also
The crest on a coat of arms. [1913 Webster]
To surmount as a timber does. [1913 Webster]
1. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3. [1913 Webster]
"And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . .
And fiddled in the timber!" [1913 Webster]
2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree. [1913 Webster]
3. Fig.: Material for any structure. [1913 Webster]
"Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of." [1913 Webster]
4. A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. [1913 Webster]
"So they prepared timber . . . to build the house." [1913 Webster]
"Many of the timbers were decayed." [1913 Webster]
5. Woods or forest; wooden land. [1913 Webster]
6. A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united. [1913 Webster]
To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle. [1913 Webster]
"His bark is stoutly timbered." [1913 Webster]
1. To light on a tree. [1913 Webster]
2. To make a nest. [1913 Webster]
timber, n.
1 wood prepared for building, carpentry, etc.
2 a piece of wood or beam, esp. as the rib of a vessel.
3 large standing trees suitable for timber; woods or forest.
4 (esp. as int.) a warning cry that a tree is about to fall.
Idiom:
timber hitch a knot used in attaching a rope to a log or spar. timber wolf a type of large N. American grey wolf.
Derivative:
timbering n.
Etymology:
OE, = building, f. Gmc
N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
giant timber bamboo, timber hitch, timber line, timber rattlesnake, timber wolf