timber: Meaning and Definition of

tim•ber

1. the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
2. growing trees themselves.
3. wooded land.
4. wood, esp. when suitable or adapted for various building purposes.
5. a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like: A timber fell from the roof.
6. (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.
7. personal character or quality: He's being talked up as presidential timber.
8. a wooden hurdle, as a gate or fence, over which a horse must jump in equestrian sports.

1. to furnish with timber.
2. to support with timber.

1. to fell timber, esp. as an occupation.

1. a lumberjack's call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground.