timber : Idioms & Phrases

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Belly timber

  • food. Ludicrous Prior.
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Bollard timber

  • (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
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Bond timber

  • timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.
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Cant frames, Cant timbers

  • (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
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Chain timber

  • . (Arch.) See Bond timber, under Bond.
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Compass timber

  • (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber.
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giant timber bamboo

  • noun large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
    Phyllostachys bambusoides; madake; ku-chiku.
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Ground timbers

  • (Shipbuilding) the timbers which lie on the keel and are bolted to the keelson; floor timbers. Knight.
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half-timber

  • adjective satellite having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
    half-timbered.
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Jack timber

  • (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others.
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Knee timber

  • timber with knees or angles in it.
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Open-timber roof

  • (Arch.), a roof of which the constructional parts, together with the under side of the covering, or its lining, are treated ornamentally, and left to form the ceiling of an apartment below, as in a church, a public hall, and the like.
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Timber and room

  • . (Shipbuilding) Same as Room and space. See under Room.
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Timber beetle

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles the larvæ of which bore in timber; as, the silky timber beetle (Lymexylon sericeum).
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Timber doodle

  • (Zoöl.), the American woodcock. Local, U.S.
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Timber grouse

  • (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; distinguished from prairie grouse.
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Timber hitch

  • noun a hitch used to secure a rope to a log or spar; often supplemented by a half hitch
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  • (Naut.), a kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch.
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timber line

  • noun line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes
    tree line; timberline.
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Timber mare

  • a kind of instrument upon which soldiers were formerly compelled to ride for punishment. Johnson.
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timber rattlesnake

  • noun widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States
    Crotalus horridus horridus; banded rattlesnake.
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Timber scribe

  • a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking timber. Simmonds.
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Timber sow

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Timber worm, below. Bacon.
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Timber tree

  • noun any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber
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  • a tree suitable for timber.
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timber wolf

  • noun a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America
    gray wolf; Canis lupus; grey wolf.
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Timber worm

  • (Zoöl.), any larval insect which burrows in timber.
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Timber yard

  • a yard or place where timber is deposited.
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timber-framed

  • adjective satellite framed by exposed timbers
    • a magnificently timbered old barn
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To lap timbers

  • to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.
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To spot timber

  • to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.
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top-timbers

Top"-tim`bers noun
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  1. (Naut.) The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.
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