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timber

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  • Reino Unido//ˈtɪmbə//
  • Reino Unido/[ˈtɪˑmˌbəː]/
  • Estados Unidos//ˈtɪmbɚ//
  • Estados Unidos/[ˈtɪˑmˌbɚː]/

Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

substantivo

  1. 1

    Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

    collect timber

    cut down timber

    Soon, he convinced his uncle to show him how to harvest ash, the local timber that—cut, hauled, sliced, and hand-pounded into thin strips—is typically used.

  2. 2

    Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

  3. 3

    A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

    the timbers of a ship

  4. 4

    Material for any structure.

  5. 5

    informalThe wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

  6. 6

    arcaicoA certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

  7. 7

    calãoThe stumps.

Etimologia

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home, house”), Czech dům (“house”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene dom (“home, house”), Serbo-Croatian до̑м, dȏm (“home, house”), Ukrainian дім (dim, “home, house; building”), Armenian տուն (tun, “home, house; family, household”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬨 (dam, “house”), Sanskrit दम् (dam, “house”), दम (dama, “home”).

interjeição

  1. 1

    Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

    From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"

  2. 2

    A cry used when anything is falling over.

    The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"

verbo

  1. 1

    To fit with timbers.

    timbering a roof

  2. 2

    obsoletoTo construct, frame, build.

    For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.

  3. 3

    To light or land on a tree.

  4. 4

    obsoletoTo make a nest.

  5. 5

    To surmount as a timber does.

Formas

plural
timbers
pretérito
timbered
particípio passado
timbered
gerúndio
timbering
3.ª pessoa do singular
timbers
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

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