Timber
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
(2): ( n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
(3): ( n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.
(4): ( v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.
(5): ( n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
(6): ( v. i.) To make a nest.
(7): ( v. i.) To light on a tree.
(8): ( v. t.) To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
(9): ( n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.
(10): ( n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
(11): ( n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
(12): ( n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.
King James Dictionary [2]
Tim'Ber, n. L. domus, a house Gr. the body.
1. That sort of wood which is proper for building or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships and the like. We apply the word to standing trees which are suitable for the uses above mentioned, as a forest contains excellent timber or to the beams, rafters, scantling, boards, planks, &c. hewed or sawed from such trees. Of all the species of trees useful as timber, in our climate, the white oak and the white pine hold the first place in importance. 2. The body or stem of a tree. 3. The materials in irony.
Such dispositions--are the fittest timber to make politics of.
4. A single piece or squared stick of wood for building, or already framed.
Many of the timbers were decayed.
5. In ships, a timber is a rib or curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united in one frame.
Tim'Ber, To furnish with timber. See Timbered.
Tim'Ber, To light on a tree. Not in use.
1. In falconry, to make a nest.
Timber or timmer of furs, as of martens, ermines, sables and the like, denotes forty skins of other skins, one hundred and twenty.
Timber of ermine, in heraldry, denote the ranks or rows of ermine in noblemen's coats.
