timber
nounEtymology
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home, house”), Czech dům (“house”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene dom (“home, house”), Serbo-Croatian до̑м, dȏm (“home, house”), Ukrainian дім (dim, “home, house; building”), Armenian տուն (tun, “home, house; family, household”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬨 (dam, “house”), Sanskrit दम् (dam, “house”), दम (dama, “home”).
Definitions
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- collect timber
- cut down timber
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide…
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
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Material for any structure.
The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between…
A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
The stumps.
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!"
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!"
To fit with timbers.
- timbering a roof
To construct, frame, build.
- For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.
To light or land on a tree.
To make a nest.
To surmount as a timber does.
The neighborhood
Derived
belly-timber, Big Timber, bond timber, compass timber, half-timber, half-timbered, hawse timber, horn timber, jack timber, put some timber on, shiver me timbers, timber camp, timber circle, timberclad, timber-clad, timber drawer, timbered, timber fly, timber framing, timber hitch, Timber Lake, timberland, timberline, timber line, timber merchant, timber nigger, timber rafting, timber rattlesnake, timber-toe, timber wolf, timberyard, virgin timber
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at timber. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at timber. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at timber
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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