Proper noun
Timbers (plural Timberses)
A surname.
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley
Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge. Ambrose Bierce
Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. Brian Aldiss
When building a house, don't measure the timbers in the forest. Liberia Proverb
Do not measure the timbers for your house in the forest. Liberia Proverb
It is easier to fondle lassies, than to cut timbers. Bulgarian Proverb