Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well.
There are two main types of lumber. It may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. Besides pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods; but it is also readily available in softwoods, such as white pine and red pine, because of their low cost.
Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry – primarily softwood, from coniferous species, including pine, fir and spruce (collectively spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. It is classified more commonly made from softwood than hardwoods, and 80% of lumber comes from softwood.
Timber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well.
There are two main types of lumber. It may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. Besides pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods; but it is also readily available in softwoods, such as white pine and red pine, because of their low cost.
Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry – primarily softwood, from coniferous species, including pine, fir and spruce (collectively spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. It is classified more commonly made from softwood than hardwoods, and 80% of lumber comes from softwood.
Lumber (noun)
Wood intended as a building material.
Lumber (noun)
Useless things that are stored away.
Lumber (noun)
A pawnbroker’s shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
Lumber (noun)
A baseball bat.
Lumber (verb)
To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
Lumber (verb)
To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
“They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.”
“I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.”
Lumber (verb)
To heap together in disorder.
Lumber (verb)
To fill or encumber with lumber.
“to lumber up a room”
Timber (noun)
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Timber (noun)
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
Timber (noun)
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.
“the timbers of a ship”
Timber (noun)
The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
Timber (noun)
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.
Timber (interjection)
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Timber (verb)
To fit with timbers.
“timbering a roof”
Timber (verb)
To construct, frame, build.
Timber (verb)
To light or land on a tree.
Timber (verb)
To make a nest.
Timber (verb)
To surmount as a timber does.