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How to pronounce “timber”
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Pronunciation guide for timber
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of timber with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to Design a Creative Life (w/ Debbie Millman)
total eclipse of the sun, um, Timber
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce timber
How to Design a Creative Life (w/ Debbie Millman)
total eclipse of the sun, um, Timber
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “timber”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- [Interjection]
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
- By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To fit with timbers.
- (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
- (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
- (obsolete) To make a nest.
- (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
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