Definition of "timber" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

   • collect timber
   • cut down timber

2. (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

3. (countable) 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

4. Material for any structure.

5. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

6. (archaic) 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.

7. (cricket, slang) The stumps.

interjection

1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

2. By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.

verb

1. (transitive) To fit with timbers.

   • timbering a roof

2. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.

3. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.

4. (obsolete) To make a nest.

5. (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.