timber

IPA: tˈɪmbɝ

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
(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.
Material for any structure.
(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
(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.
Misspelling of timbre. [The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.]

Examples of "timber" in Sentences

Previously we normally located them in timber during the majority of daylight hours.
You can now buy ETFs that specialize in timber, Canadian energy stocks, water, the Swedish krona and Chinese real estate.
Starting last year, a certain timber company the club I hunt with leases land from, prohibited the use of dogs to deer hunt.
The 7mm-08 is an outstanding starter rifle and a life long shooter, especially if you are hunting more in timber than the prairie.
For instance, furniture grade timber is unheard of in the south, because timber cutters strip cut so much to during the gutting that happened after the war.
Rick, back in late July we saw one of your competitors sold some land, basically what they called a timber deed, and I'm curious if you care to comment on the structure.
Photo By hunter6 second shed of the year found it on my way home from work were the deer had been jumping the fence to go to the timber from the corn field. eastern iowa .2010
He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush!