Definition of "timber"

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.  examples

(outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.  examples

(countable) 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.  examples

Material for any structure.  examples

(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.  examples

(archaic) A 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.

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

(transitive) To fit with timbers.  examples

(transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.  quotations

(falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.  examples

(obsolete) To make a nest.

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.  examples

Misspelling of timbre.  examples