[tim-ber] 
| 1. | the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses. |
| 2. | growing trees themselves. |
| 3. | wooded land. |
| 4. | wood, esp. when suitable or adapted for various building purposes. |
| 5. | a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like: A timber fell from the roof. |
| 6. | Nautical. (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib. |
| 7. | personal character or quality: He's being talked up as presidential timber. |
| 8. | Sports. a wooden hurdle, as a gate or fence, over which a horse must jump in equestrian sports. |
| 9. | to furnish with timber. |
| 10. | to support with timber. |
| 11. | to fell timber, esp. as an occupation. |
| 12. | a lumberjack's call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground. |
| tim·ber (tĭm'bər) n.
To support or frame with timbers: timber a mine shaft. [Middle English, from Old English, building, trees for building; see dem- in Indo-European roots.] |