timber
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Is timber a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.Examples: "collect timber"; "cut down timber"Synonyms: timberland, forestuncountable
2. (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.Synonyms: lumber, woodUSuncountable
3. (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: "the timbers of a ship"Synonyms: beam, raftercountable
4. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.countableinformaluncountable
5. (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.archaiccountableuncountable
6. (cricket, slang) The stumps.countableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fit with timbers.Examples: "timbering a roof"transitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.Examples: "For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it."obsoletetransitive
3. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.intransitive
4. (obsolete) To make a nest.obsolete
5. (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary