English English Dictionary

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Fig.: Material for any structure.

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.

Woods or forest; wooden land.

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.

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

To light on a tree.

To make a nest.

of Timber

Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.

Built; formed; contrived.

Massive, like timber.

Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.

The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

of Timber

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

A small tree.

A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.

of Timberman

Work made of timbers.