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- English Word Timber Definition Fig.: Material for any structure.
- English Word Timber Definition 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.
- English Word Timber Definition Woods or forest; wooden land.
- English Word Timber Definition 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.
- English Word Timber Definition To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
- English Word Timber Definition To light on a tree.
- English Word Timber Definition To make a nest.
- English Word Timbered Definition of Timber
- English Word Timbered Definition Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.
- English Word Timbered Definition Built; formed; contrived.
- English Word Timbered Definition Massive, like timber.
- English Word Timbered Definition Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.
- English Word Timberhead Definition The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
- English Word Timbering Definition of Timber
- English Word Timbering Definition The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
- English Word Timberling Definition A small tree.
- English Word Timberman Definition A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.
- English Word Timbermen Definition of Timberman
- English Word Timberwork Definition Work made of timbers.
- English Word Timbre Definition See 1st Timber.
- English Word Timbre Definition The crest on a coat of arms.
- English Word Timbre Definition The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.
- English Word Timbrel Definition A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
- English Word Timbreled Definition Alt. of Timbrelled
- English Word Timbrelled Definition Sung to the sound of the timbrel.
- English Word Timburine Definition A tambourine.
- English Word Time Definition Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
- English Word Time Definition A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
- English Word Time Definition The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
- English Word Time Definition The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.