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What does timber mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  2. (Canada) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  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. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers".
  4. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  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.
  6. Misspelling of timbre.
Interjection
  1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
  3. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
  4. (obsolete) To make a nest.
  5. To surmount as a timber does.
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