Meaning of timmer | Babel Free

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
   Scotland, countable, uncountable

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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."”

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