timber
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Other meanings
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 heavy support for something such as a roof.
“the timbers of a ship”
Synonyms
- lumber
A kind of
- building material
Kinds of timber
- board
- stock
- strip
Related words
- betimber
- nontimber
- poletimber
- retimber
- sawtimber
- timbergetter
- timberhead
- timberish
- timberless
- timberlike
- timberling
- timberman
Word history
From Old English "timber".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “timber” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.