TIMBER
ADJECTIVES
► DRUXY of timber: having decayed spots concealed by healthy wood → 1589
► PUNK of timber: decayed, rotten → 1902 US
► TIMBERY abounding in or characterized by timber → 1859
NOUNS
► HEADS AND PLUCKS the refuse of timber, the boughs, roots, etc.→ 1790 Eng. dial.
► MATERIATION the felling of timber for building → 1623 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► TIMBERMAN 1. a man who supplies or deals in timber → 1429 obs.
2. a person who makes things of timber; a carpenter → 1466 Sc. obs.
► TIMBER-TASTER a dockyard official formerly employed in testing the measurement, soundness, and quality of timber → 1806 obs.
► XYLOPOLIST a timber-merchant → 1656
VERBS
► GRANDMA to steal timber → 1936 Amer. dial.
► THROW to fell timber → 1889 Eng. dial.
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