timber

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

   collect timber

2. 2
   noun

   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

3. 3
   intj

   Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

   From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"

4. 4
   intj

   By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.

   The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"

5. 5
   verb

   To fit with timbers.

   timbering a roof

6. 6
   verb

   To construct, frame, build.

   For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.

7. 7
   noun

   a beam made of wood

8. 8
   noun

   a post made of wood

Etymology

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, 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).