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Timber Wood Noun Building Houses Making Furniture Refer

word timber
definition
noun
Timber is wood that is used for building houses and making furniture . You can also refer to trees that are grown for this purpose as timber .
These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.
...a single-story timber building.
The timbers of a ship or house are the large pieces of wood that have been used to build it.
...a bird nestling in the timbers of the roof.
inflections timbers
cefr-level C1

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