Usually means: Wood processed for building use.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. timber: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. timber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. timber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. timber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. timber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Timber, timber: Wordnik
  7. timber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. timber: Wiktionary
  9. timber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. timber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. timber: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. timber: Dictionary.com
  13. timber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. timber: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Timber (film), The Timber, Timber (Coldcut and Hexstatic song), Timber (Coldcut song), Timber (Pitbull song), Timber (disambiguation), Timber (video game), Timber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Timber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. timber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. timber: Rhymezone
  19. timber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. timber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. timber: Free Dictionary
  22. timber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. timber: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. timber: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. timber: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. timber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TIMBER: Acronym Finder
  3. timber: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. timber: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. timber: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. timber: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. TIMBER: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  4. TIMBER: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See timbered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
noun:  (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Material for any structure.
noun:  (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To fit with timbers.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
verb:  (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
verb:  (obsolete) To make a nest.
verb:  (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
noun:  Misspelling of timbre. [The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.]

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    brown,     tan,     beige,     chestnut,     mahogany,     redwood,     ebony,     sand,     umber,     sienna



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    brown,     tan,     beige,     chestnut,     mahogany,     redwood,     ebony,     sand,     umber,     sienna



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