Definitions for: Timber


[n] a beam made of wood
[n] a post made of wood
[n] 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"
[n] land that is covered with trees and shrubs
[n] the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material



Webster (1913) Definition: Tim"ber, n. [Probably the same word as timber sort of
wood; cf. Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F.
timbre, LL. timbrium. Cf. Timmer.] (Com.)
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
timmer. [Written also timbre.]


Tim"ber, n. [F. timbre. See Timbre.] (Her.)
The crest on a coat of arms. [Written also timbre.]


Tim"ber, v. t.
To surmount as a timber does. [Obs.]


Tim"ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin
to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar
timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer,
Dan. t["o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L.
domus a house, Gr. ? house, ? to build, Skr. dama a house.
[root]62. Cf. Dome, Domestic.]
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.

And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled
in the timber! --Tennyson.

2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

3. Fig.: Material for any structure.

Such dispositions are the very errors of human
nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make
politics of. --Bacon.

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.

So they prepared timber . . . to build the house.
--1 Kings v.
18.

Many of the timbers were decayed. --W. Coxe.

5. Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U. S.]

6. (Shipbuilding) 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.

Timber and room. (Shipbuilding) Same as Room and space.
See under Room.

Timber beetle (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
beetles the larv[ae] of which bore in timber; as, the
silky timber beetle (Lymexylon sericeum).

Timber doodle (Zo["o]l.), the American woodcock. [Local, U.
S.]

Timber grouse (Zo["o]l.), any species of grouse that
inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge;
-- distinguished from prairie grouse.

Timber hitch (Naut.), a kind of hitch used for temporarily
marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch.


Timber mare, a kind of instrument upon which soldiers were
formerly compelled to ride for punishment. --Johnson.

Timber scribe, a metal tool or pointed instrument for
marking timber. --Simmonds.

Timber sow. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Timber worm, below.
--Bacon.

Timber tree, a tree suitable for timber.

Timber worm (Zo["o]l.), any larval insect which burrows in
timber.

Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.


Tim"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timbered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Timbering.]
To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past
participle.

His bark is stoutly timbered. --Shak.


Tim"ber, v. i.
1. To light on a tree. [Obs.]

2. (Falconry) To make a nest.

Synonyms: forest, lumber, quality, timberland, timbre, tone, woodland

See Also: beam, biome, Black Forest, board, building material, color, coloration, colour, colouration, coulisse, dry land, earth, fullness, greenwood, ground, harshness, jungle, land, mellowness, nasality, plangency, plank, planking, post, rain forest, register, resonance, reverberance, richness, ringing, riparian forest, roughness, Schwarzwald, Sherwood Forest, shrillness, silva, solid ground, sonority, sonorousness, sound property, sternpost, stock, stridence, stridency, stringer, strip, sylva, terra firma, tree farm, tropical rain forest, two-by-four, vibrancy, wood

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