timber

noun

1. a building
2. building material
wood suitable for building houses, ships, etc., whether cut or still in the form of trees
a large, heavy, dressed piece of wood used in building; beam
Brit. lumber ()
trees or forests collectively
personal quality or character: a man of his timber
Shipbuilding a wooden rib

transitive verb

to provide, build, or prop up with timbers

intransitive verb

to work at cutting down timber

adjective

of or for timber

interjection

used in a forest to signify that a cut tree is about to fall: a lumberman's warning shout

See timber in American Heritage Dictionary 4