Timber vs Betimber - What's the difference?
timber | betimber |
(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.
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
To fit with timbers.
(falconry) To light or land on a tree.
(obsolete) To make a nest.
To surmount as a timber does.
(Webster 1913)
To build.
*1911 , William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris :
To furnish with timber; timber.
As a noun timber
is postage stamp.As a verb betimber is
to build.timber
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Noun
(wikipedia timber) (en noun)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, rafterDerived terms
* half-timbered * shiver me timbers * timbered * timberland * timberline * timber wolf * timberyardInterjection
timber!Verb
(en verb)- timbering a roof
Anagrams
* ----betimber
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Verb
(en verb)- Wrought there and fashion'd the folk of the Weders A howe on the lithe, that high was and broad, Unto the wave-farers wide to be seen: Then it they betimber'd in time often days, The battle-strong's beacon; [...]
