Definition of timber

• n. - A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
• n. - The crest on a coat of arms.
• v. t. - To surmount as a timber does.
• n. - That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
• n. - The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
• n. - Fig.: Material for any structure.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Woods or forest; wooden land.
• n. - 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.
• v. t. - To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
• v. i. - To light on a tree.
• v. i. - To make a nest.