TIMBER
\tˈɪmbə], \tˈɪmbə], \t_ˈɪ_m_b_ə]\
Definitions of TIMBER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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a beam made of wood
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a post made of wood
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The crest on a coat of arms.
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To surmount as a timber does.
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The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
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Fig.: Material for any structure.
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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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Woods or forest; wooden land.
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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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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.
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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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To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
By Oddity Software
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The crest on a coat of arms.
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To surmount as a timber does.
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The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
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Fig.: Material for any structure.
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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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Woods or forest; wooden land.
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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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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.
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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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To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
By Noah Webster.
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The body or stem of a tree; wood suitable for carpentry, bulldings, shipbuilding, etc.; a large piece of wood prepared for use in building or already in place; wooded land, as forests.
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To furnish or construct with wood suitable for building, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Wood for building purposes : the trunk of a tree: material for any structure: one of the larger pieces of the framework of a house, ship, etc.
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To furnish with timber or beams.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like ;-the body or trunk of a tree ;-a single piece or squared stick of wood for building;- woods or forest; wooded land;-in ships, a rib of a curving piece of wood branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction.
