timber
/ˈtɪmbɚ/ verb C2- To fit with timbers. · timbering a roof
- To light or land on a tree.
- To surmount as a timber does.
He/she/it timbers · Past timbered · Past participle timbered · -ing form timbering
Verb forms
- Base form
- timber
- He/she/it
- timbers
- Past
- timbered
- Past participle
- timbered
- -ing form
- timbering
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A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex.
“But for all that, it is the fault of this new-grown timber.
A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.
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