1. timber - Noun
2. timber - Verb
3. timber - Interjection
To make a nest.
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.
The crest on a coat of arms.
To surmount as a timber does.
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.
The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
Fig.: Material for any structure.
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.
Woods or forest; wooden land.
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.
To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
To light on a tree.
Source: Webster's dictionaryKnowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. Marshall McLuhan
Knotty timber must have sharp wedges. Romanian Proverb
Knotty timber requires sharp wedges. Romanian Proverb
If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall. Chinese Proverb