Definitions from Wiktionary (timber)
▸ noun: (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
▸ noun: (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
▸ noun: (countable) 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.
▸ noun: Material for any structure.
▸ noun: (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
▸ noun: (archaic) 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.
▸ noun: (cricket, slang) The stumps.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fit with timbers.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
▸ verb: (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To make a nest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
▸ noun: Misspelling of timbre. [The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.]
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▸ noun: (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
▸ noun: (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
▸ noun: (countable) 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.
▸ noun: Material for any structure.
▸ noun: (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
▸ noun: (archaic) 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.
▸ noun: (cricket, slang) The stumps.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fit with timbers.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
▸ verb: (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To make a nest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
▸ noun: Misspelling of timbre. [The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.]
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