4. timber wood, esp. when adapted for various building purposes.
5. timber a single piece of wood forming part of a structure: A timber fell from the roof.
6. timber (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.
7. timber a person regarded as having exceptional qualifications: He's presidential timber.
8. (v.t.)timber to furnish or support with timber.
9. (v.i.)timber to fell timber, esp. as an occupation.
10. (interj.)timber (used as a lumberjack's call to warn others that a cut tree is about to fall.)
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE: orig., house, building material, c. OFris
Definition of 'timber'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)lumber, timber the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
2. (noun)timber a beam made of wood
3. (noun)timber a post made of wood
4. (noun)forest, woodland, timberland, timber land that is covered with trees and shrubs
5. (noun)timbre, timber, quality, tone (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"
1. (noun)timber 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
3. (noun)timber 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
4. (noun)timber the body, stem, or trunk of a tree
5. (noun)timber fig.: Material for any structure
6. (noun)timber 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
8. (noun)timber 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
9. (verb)timber to surmount as a timber does
10. (verb)timber to furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle
Definitions of timber 
Afrikaans: hout
Arabic: خَشَب للبِناء
Bulgarian: дървен материал
Brazilian: madeira
Czech: stavební dříví
German: das Bauholz
Danish: træ
Greek: ξυλεία
Spanish: madera de construcción
Estonian: puit
Farsi: چوب
Finnish: puutavara
French: bois de construction
Hebrew: עֵץ לִבנִייָה
Hindi: इमारती लकडी़
Croatian: drvo, drvena građa
Hungarian: fa(anyag)
Indonesian: kayu
Icelandic: timbur
Italian: legname
Japanese: 材木
Korean: 삼림
Lithuanian: mediena
Latvian: koks; kokmateriāli
Malay: kayu
Dutch: hout
Norwegian: tømmer, trelast
Polish: drewno
Persian: چوب
Pashto: الوار، چارتراش، وېشه، بش:
Portuguese: madeira
Romanian: cherestea
Russian: древесина
Slovak: stavebné drevo
Slovenian: stavbni les
Serbian: drvo
Swedish: timmer, trä, virke
Thai: ต้นไม้ที่เติบโตในป่า (โดย
Turkish: kereste
Taiwanese: 木材
Ukrainian: лісоматеріал
Urdu: عمارت ميں استعمال کي لکڑي
Vietnamese: gỗ
Chinese: 木材
