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noun. Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.

noun. Wood used as a building material; lumber.

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noun. A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.

noun. A rib in a ship's frame.

noun. A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity.

transitive verb. To support or frame with timbers.

interjection. Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.

noun. In cricket, the stumps; the wickets: usually in the plural.

noun. In mining, a local name for a braced frame forming the roof and side-supports of a gallery or drilt.

To furnish (a tunnel, drift, gallery, or other excavation) with braced frames of logs or squared timbers which support the roof and resist the caving in or crushing at the sides.

To build; make a nest.

To furnish with timber. See timbered.

noun. A certain number or tale of skins, being forty of marten, ermine, sable, and the like, and one hundred and twenty of others.

To surmount and decorate, as a crest does a coat of arms.

noun. In heraldry, originally, the crest; hence, in modern heraldry, the helmet, miter, coronet, etc., when placed over the arms in a complete achievement.

noun. Wood suitable for building houses or ships, or for use in carpentry, joinery, etc.; trees cut down and squared or capable of being squared and cut into beams, rafters, planks, boards, etc.

noun. Growing trees, yielding wood suitable for constructive uses; trees generally; woods. See timber-tree.

noun. In British law, the kind of tree which a tenant for life may not cut; in general, oak, ash, and elm of the age of twenty years and upward, unless so old as not to have a reasonable quantity of useful wood in them, the limit being, according to some authorities, enough to make a good post.

noun. Stuff; material.

noun. A single piece of wood, either suitable for use in some construction or already in such use; a beam, either by itself or forming a member of any structure: as, the timbers of a house or of a bridge.

noun. Nautical, one of the curving pieces of wood branching upward from the keel of a vessel, forming the ribs.

noun. The wooden part of something, as the beam or handle of a spear.

noun. The stocks.

Constructed of timber; made of wood.

noun. The crest on a coat of arms.

noun. 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.

transitive verb. To surmount as a timber does.

transitive verb. To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

intransitive verb. To light on a tree.

intransitive verb. To make a nest.

noun. 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.

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

noun. Fig.: Material for any structure.

noun. 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.

noun. Woods or forest; wooden land.

noun. 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.

noun. Same as Room and space. See under Room.

noun. any one of numerous species of beetles the larvæ of which bore in timber.

noun. the American woodcock.

noun. any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; -- distinguished from prairie grouse.

noun. a kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch.

noun. a kind of instrument upon which soldiers were formerly compelled to ride for punishment.

noun. a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking timber.

noun. Same as Timber worm, below.

noun. a tree suitable for timber.

noun. any larval insect which burrows in timber.

noun. a yard or place where timber is deposited.

noun. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.