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Look up: timber

  1. Timber
    Timber is wood prepared for building, or trees which provide wood suitable for building with.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Timber
    Timber is a township in Peoria County Illinois, USA.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. timber
    [n] - a post made of wood 2. [n] - a beam made of wood
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. timber
    Wood, or made from wood
    Found on http://www.conservancy.co.uk/learn/wordl

  5. TIMBER
    in ship building,one of the curved wooden members,i.e.ribs,to which the strakes are fastened Category: Various industries and crafts • forest crops and stands containing timber(hence the term standing timber)and also for any lesser aggregation of such trees Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Timber
    Tim'ber noun [ Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; confer Swedish timber , LG. timmer , Middle High German zimber , German zimmer , French timbre , Late Latin timbrium . Confer Timmer .] (Com.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in o ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  7. Timber
    Tim'ber noun [ French timbre . See Timbre .] (Her.) The crest on a coat of arms. [ Written also timbre .]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  8. Timber
    Tim'ber transitive verb To surmount as a timber does. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  9. Timber
    Tim'ber noun [ Anglo-Saxon timbor , timber , wood, building; akin to OFries. timber , Dutch timmer a room, German zimmer , Old High German zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icelandic timbr timber, Swedish timmer , Danish tömmer , Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, Latin domus a house, Greek ... house, ... ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  10. Timber
    Tim'ber transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Timbered ; present participle & verbal noun Timbering .] To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle. « His bark is stoutly timbered Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  11. Timber
    Tim'ber intransitive verb 1. To light on a tree. [ Obsolete] 2. (Falconry) To make a nest.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/58

  12. timber
    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. 'And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!' (Tennyson) ... 2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree. ... 3. Material for any struc ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  13. timber
    noun a beam made of wood
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. timber
    the wood from trees that is used for building
    Found on http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossar

  15. Timber
    • (n.) Fig.: Material for any structure. • (v. t.) To surmount as a timber does. • (v. i.) To make a nest. • (n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree. • (n.) 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; -- call...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. Timber
    A collective term for underground wooden supports.
    Found on http://www.coaleducation.org/glossary.ht

  17. Timber
    A cry of warning that an arrow has been, or is about to be, released. (Similar to 'Fore!' in golf.)
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/geturl3.php

  18. timber
    A general term for natural or sawn wood in a form suitable for building or structural purposes
    Found on http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/glossary/vie

  19. timber
    a traditional unit of quantity for furs equal to 2 score or 40. This unit, which persisted at least into the nineteenth century, originated because furs were shipped in bundles of 40 pressed between two boards or timbers.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.

  20. timber
    timber: see lumber; wood.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09196


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