Definition: 1. Trees that are grown to be used in building or for making things. 2. Wood that is prepared for use in building, etc. 3. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material. 4. A beam made of wood. 5. A post made of wood.
Use 'timber' in a sentence:
1. The timber expands as it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere.
2. The ship's timbers groaned audibly during the storm.
3. He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.
4. Some species of tree have been read out of the party by economics-minded forestersbecause they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale vale to pay as timber crops.
5. He felled, peeled, and hewed his own timber.
6. This is the cableway that the lumberjacks use to haul out their timber.
7. We must safeguard forest timber.
8. At the time, most large homes were constructed of timber and brick.
9. These Michigan woods have been exploited for timber since the Great Fire of Chicago.
10. Half of the north-west's timber land is public property.
11. He supplied housebuilders with modern timber frames.
12. The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch.
13. He also supplied materials—particularly timber, including cedar from the forests of Lebanon.
14. Some species of tree have been 'read out of the party' by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.
15. The farmer spent a day in the woods hewing timber.
16. Fires have burned up 180,000 acres of timber.
17. Timber ran short, and it was necessary to procure it from farther and farther away.
18. There were few natural resources, no timber, stone, or metals.
19. Timber owners have often produced lumber at a loss and survived these down cycles in demand.
20. Only the finest timbers and veneers are used.
21. Seed plants have many other uses, including providing wood as a source of timber for construction, fuel, and material to build furniture.
22. The timber has rotted.
23. You'll have to make do with this timber.
24. I made it all right until I heard a timber wolf howl.
25. He understood well the importance of international trade and the potential wealth to be gained from the export of flax, hemp, pitch, furs, hides and timber.
26. Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.
27. The loggers say their jobs are faced with extinction because of declining timber sales.
28. This is the cableway which the lumberjacks use to haul out their timber.
29. One quality of this kind of timber is that it can be sawn easily.
30. The timber is graded according to its thickness.
31. Then they plaster timber together with mud.
32. The builders will have to strengthen the existing joists with additional timber.
33. Timbered cottages stood around a triangular green.
34. The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.
35. The cedar wood was exported as top-quality timber for architecture and shipbuilding.
36. Men were loading up a truck with timber.
37. It only takes a little bit of dirt to damage your timber floors.
38. The timbers groan and creak and the floorboards shift.
39. Neither the timber frame nor metal chassis were protected against rot.
40. Most consist of timber frames that rest on stone blocks.
41. A natural timber deck leads into the main room of the home.
42. The boxes should be constructed from rough-sawn timber.
43. They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber.
44. The roof was braced by lengths of timber.
45. This agency has been far too easy on the timber industry over the years.
46. These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.
47. Every piece of timber was planed, cut to size and stained with cedar preservative.
48. Certainly, the limitations imposed by manual labor and the locally available materials of mud-brick and timber necessitated a divergence from the original European church model.
49. Existing timbers are replaced or renewed.
50. Rich countries benefited from importing Indonesia's timber.
51. The roof timbers were affected by rot and insect attack.
