timber

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

   “collect timber”

2. isim Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. isim 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. isim Material for any structure.
5. isim The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
6. isim 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.
7. isim The stumps.
8. ünlem 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!"”

9. ünlem By extension, 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!"”

10. fiil To fit with timbers.

    “timbering a roof”

11. fiil To construct, frame, build.

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

12. fiil To light or land on a tree.
13. fiil To make a nest.
14. fiil To surmount as a timber does.