<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.</li><li>growing trees themselves.</li><li>wooded land.</li><li>wood, especially when suitable or adapted for various building purposes.</li><li>a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like: A timber fell from the roof.</li><li>Nautical: (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.</li><li>personal character or quality: He's being talked up as presidential timber.</li><li>Sports: a wooden hurdle, as a gate or fence, over which a horse must jump in equestrian sports.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to furnish with timber.</li><li>to support with timber.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to fell timber, especially as an occupation.</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection</strong></p><ul><li>a lumberjack's call to warn those in the vicinity that a cut tree is about to fall to the ground.</li></ul>