Meaning of Timber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
   uncountable
2. Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
   US, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable
4. Material for any structure.
   countable, uncountable
5. The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
   countable, informal, uncountable
6. 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.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
7. The stumps.
   countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“collect timber”

“cut down timber”

“the timbers of a ship”

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