timber

timber is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The crest on a coat of arms.
3. transitive verb. To surmount as a timber does.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
6. noun. Fig.: Material for any structure.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. Woods or forest; wooden land.
9. noun. 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.
10. transitive verb. To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
11. intransitive verb. To light on a tree.
12. intransitive verb. To make a nest.
13. noun. a beam made of wood
14. noun. a post made of wood
15. noun. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

    "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"

    "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

    Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone

16. noun. land that is covered with trees and shrubs

    Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland

17. noun. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

    Synonyms: lumber

Synonyms

quality, timbre, tone, forest, timberland, woodland, lumber

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in timber:

betrim, timbre

Common word forms

timbers, timbered, timberer, timbering, timberless

Words from these letters

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