Barge vs Timber - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between barge and timber

is that barge is a large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo while timber is (uncountable) trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

As verbs the difference between barge and timber

is that barge is to intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner while timber is to fit with timbers.

As an interjection timber is

used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

barge

English

(wikipedia barge)

Noun

(en noun)

A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo

A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions

A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel

One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table

(US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

(Webster 1913)

Synonyms

* lighter

Derived terms

* admiral's barge * bargee * barge in * dumb barge * rowbarge, row barge

Verb

(barg)

To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.

To push someone.

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Anagrams

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timber

English

Noun

(wikipedia timber) (en noun)

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

(British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

(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".

(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 .

(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Synonyms

* (trees considered as a source of wood) timberland, forest * (wood that has been cut ready for construction) lumber (US), wood * (beam used to support a roof) beam, rafter

Derived terms

* half-timbered * shiver me timbers * timbered * timberland * timberline * timber wolf * timberyard

Interjection

timber!

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Verb

(en verb)

To fit with timbers.

timbering a roof

(falconry) To light or land on a tree.

(obsolete) To make a nest.

To surmount as a timber does.

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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