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timberless

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tim⋅ber

  [tim-ber]
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–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
9. to furnish with timber.
10. to support with timber.
–verb (used without object)
11. to fell timber, esp. as an occupation.
–interjection
12. a lumberjack's call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE: orig., house, building material; c. G Zimmer room, ON timbr timber; akin to Goth timrjan, Gk démein to build. See dome

Related forms:
tim⋅ber⋅less, adjective
tim⋅ber⋅y, adjective
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Word Origin & History

timber 
O.E. timber "building, structure," later "building material, trees suitable for building," and "wood in general," from P.Gmc. *temran (cf. O.Fris. timber "wood, building," O.H.G. zimbar "timber, wooden dwelling, room," O.N. timbr "timber," Ger. Zimmer "room"), from PIE *demrom-, from base *dem-/*dom- "build" (source of Gk. domos, L. domus; see domestic). The O.E. verb timbran, timbrian was the chief word for "to build" (cf. Du. timmeren, Ger. zimmern). As a call of warning when a cut tree is about to fall, it is attested from 1912 in Canadian Eng. Timbers in the nautical slang sense (see shiver (n.)) is from the specialized meaning "pieces of wood composing the frames of a ship's hull" (1748).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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