Timber vs. Tinder

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Timbernoun

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

Timbernoun

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Timbernoun

(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.

Timbernoun

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Timbernoun

(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.

Timberinterjection

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

Timberverb

(transitive) To fit with timbers.

Timberverb

To construct, frame, build.

Timberverb

To light or land on a tree.

Timberverb

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Timberverb

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Timbernoun

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

Timbernoun

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timbernoun

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

Timbernoun

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timbernoun

Fig.: Material for any structure.

Timbernoun

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

Timbernoun

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timbernoun

A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

Timberverb

To surmount as a timber does.

Timberverb

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.

Timberverb

To light on a tree.

Timberverb

To make a nest.

Timbernoun

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timbernoun

a beam made of wood

Timbernoun

a post made of wood

Timbernoun

land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timbernoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

Tindernoun

Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

Tinderverb

(transitive) To set fire to; torch.

Tindernoun

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

Tindernoun

material for starting a fire

Tinder

Tinder is easily combustible material used to start a fire. Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks.

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