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timber

tim·ber

UK/ˈtɪmbə/ US/ˈtɪˑmˌbəː/ fairly common informal slang us

noun

1.

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

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2.

a beam made of wood

3.

a post made of wood

4.

land that is covered with trees and shrubs

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5.

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

  • “the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely”
  • “the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet”
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Origin

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home,...

Phrases

  • Big Timber
  • bond timber
  • compass timber
  • hawse timber
  • horn timber
  • jack timber
  • put some timber on
  • shiver me timbers

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