timbers

plural of timber
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as in forests
a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area upon our approach the deer disappeared back into the timber from whence it had come

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as in lumber
tree logs as prepared for human use needed a new load of timber to finish building the house

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Recent Examples of timbers Protect the rough ends of timbers with wire screening or metal flashing. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025 The houses look German with their mahogany timbers, each window framed by shutters and a little planter of blooming flowers. R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025 Shiver me timbers and blow me down. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 Jeremy Borrelli, a staff archaeologist for ECU's maritime studies program, told Fox News Digital the team recovered 63 wooden shipwreck timbers – 47 of which are believed to be part of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer ship from Cuba. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Think warm, matte timbers and intricate, decorative glass. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2025 Many were killed instantly by the explosion, fire, falling timbers, shrapnel and searing steam from the boilers, and many by drowning. arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024 From across France, itinerant glassblowers, masons and carpenters — hewers, who squared the timbers, joiners, who fit beams together — converged on Paris. Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024 The wreck is mostly covered by coral, but Castro and other divers have been able to excavate timbers from the ship’s hull and frame by digging trenches. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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Noun
  • With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because of the tides, you’re forced to slow down and savor the waterfalls pouring into the ocean, cliffside beaches, forests, fog, sea lions, elephant seals, and otters frolicking not far off your path.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Grainier‘s an itinerant lumber man who worked the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century, felling timber and building railroads.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Home-building costs have also been soaring and are expected to climb higher with the new tariffs on lumber.
    Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Blood orange and saffron ignite the air, myrrh smolders beneath, and the woods hum with market heat.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The couple walked through the woods with the baby in the kennel.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025

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