timber

timber
    n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
         material [syn: {lumber}, {timber}]
    2: a beam made of wood
    3: a post made of wood
    4: land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: {forest},
       {woodland}, {timberland}, {timber}]
    5: (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" [syn: {timbre}, {timber}, {quality},
       {tone}]
    

Timber \Tim"ber\, n. [F. timbre. See {Timbre}.] (Her.)
   The crest on a coat of arms. [Written also {timbre}.]
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Timber \Tim"ber\, v. t.
   To surmount as a timber does. [Obs.]
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Timber \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.
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            And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . .
            And fiddled in the timber!            --Tennyson.
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   2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
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   3. Fig.: Material for any structure.
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            Such dispositions are the very errors of human
            nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make
            politics of.                          --Bacon.
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   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.
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            So they prepared timber . . . to build the house.
                                                  --1 Kings v.
                                                  18.
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            Many of the timbers were decayed.     --W. Coxe.
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   5. Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U. S.]
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   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.
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   {Timber and room}. (Shipbuilding) Same as {Room and space}.
      See under {Room}.

   {Timber beetle} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
      beetles the larvae of which bore in timber; as, the silky
      timber beetle ({Lymexylon sericeum}).

   {Timber doodle} (Zool.), the American woodcock. [Local, U.
      S.]

   {Timber grouse} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.) Same as {Timber worm}, below. --Bacon.

   {Timber tree}, a tree suitable for timber.

   {Timber worm} (Zool.), any larval insect which burrows in
      timber.

   {Timber yard}, a yard or place where timber is deposited.
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Timber \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}.]
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Timber \Tim"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Timbered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Timbering}.]
   To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past
   participle.
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         His bark is stoutly timbered.            --Shak.
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Timber \Tim"ber\, v. i.
   1. To light on a tree. [Obs.]
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   2. (Falconry) To make a nest.
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      board, boarding, boards, boondocks, bush, bushveld, character,
      chase, clapboard, climax forest, cloud forest, conifer, cord,
      cordwood, deal, dendrology, driftwood, evergreen, firewood, forest,
      forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest,
      fruit tree, gallery forest, girder, greenwood, hanger, hardwood,
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      lathwork, log, lumber, mast, material, national forest,
      palmetto barrens, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, park,
      park forest, pine barrens, plank, planking, planks, plyboard,
      plywood, pole, pollard, post, potential, primeval forest, prospect,
      protection forest, puncheon, quality, rafter, rain forest,
      reforestation, sapling, scrub, scrubland, seedling,
      selection forest, shade tree, shake, sheathing, sheathing board,
      sheeting, shingle, shrubland, sideboard, siding, silviculture,
      slab, slat, softwood, softwood tree, spar, splat, sprout forest,
      stand of timber, state forest, stave, stick, stick of wood,
      stovewood, stuff, talent, three-by-four, timber tree, timbering,
      timberland, timberwork, tree, tree veld, two-by-four,
      virgin forest, weald, weatherboard, wildwood, wood, woodland,
      woods