Word Meanings - TIMBERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

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• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• TIMBERHEAD
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• TIMBERLING
  A small tree.
• TIMBERED
  1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange. 2. Built; formed; contrived. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Massive, like timber. His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser. 4. Covered
• TIMBERING
  The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
• TIMBERWORK
  Work made of timbers.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• TOP-TIMBERS
  The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.
• REFURNISHMENT
  The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
• UNFURNISH
  To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
• UNDERFURNISH
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.
• HALF-TIMBERED
  Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
• REFURNISH
  To furnish again.
• DISFURNISHMENT
  The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.