Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
2. (British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. (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".
4. (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.
5. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Interjektioner

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
2. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
3. (obsolete) To make a nest.
4. To surmount as a timber does.