timber Definition

timber
noun

1. Wood, especially wood prepared for building or carpentry.

Thesaurus: wood, logs, planks, beams.
2. Trees suitable for this; forest or woodland.
3. A wooden beam in the framework of something, especially a ship or house.

exclamation

1. A warning cry that a tree has been cut and is about to fall.

verb timbered, timbering

1. To provide with timber or beams.
2. To cover something in timber.

Derivative: timbering
noun

Idiom: shiver my timbers

See under shiver.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.