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timmer

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A surname from Dutch [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Carpenter for a carpenter from Dutch timmer (“construction, room”).
  2. timber

Equivalents

Nederlandstimmer

Examples

“Though no a bird can now be heard ⁠Upon the leafless timmer; Whate'er betide, the ingle side ⁠Can mak' the winter simmer!”
“"Forbye," said the Butler, most irreverently raising his voice to a pitch which drowned his master's, "the fire made fast on us, owing to the store of tapestry and carved timmer in the banqueting ha', and the loons ran like⟳ scauded rats so soon as they heard of the gunpouther."”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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