timber
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, 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).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (US) (noun) (file) - Hyphenation: tim‧ber
- Homophone: timbre (for one US pronunciation of that word)
Noun[edit]
timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- (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.
- the timbers of a ship
- (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- (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.
- Misspelling of timbre.
Synonyms[edit]
- (trees considered as a source of wood): timberland, forest
- (wood that has been cut ready for construction): lumber (US), wood
- (beam used to support a roof): beam, rafter
Hyponyms[edit]
- (wooden beam used to provide support): crosstree
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Interjection[edit]
timber!
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
timber (third-person singular simple present timbers, present participle timbering, simple past and past participle timbered)
- (transitive) To fit with timbers.
- timbering a roof
- (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14,[1]
- For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14,[1]
- (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
- (obsolete) To make a nest.
- To surmount as a timber does.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for timber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
timber n (definite singular timberet, uncountable)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by tømmer
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm). Cognates include Old Saxon timbar, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), and Latin domus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
timber n
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Old Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse timbr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą.
Noun[edit]
timber n
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Descendants[edit]
- Swedish: timmer
- English terms derived from the PIE root *dem-
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- en:Falconry
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- Webster 1913
- en:Timber industry
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