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timber
A	noun
	1	timber
				a beam made of wood
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚instrumentality; instrumentation ╚device ╚support ╚structural member ╚beam ╚timber ╚two-by-four ╚stringer ╚sternpost ╚coulisse
	2	timber
				a post made of wood
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚instrumentality; instrumentation ╚device ╚support ╚structural member ╚upright; vertical ╚post ╚timber
	3	timbre, timber, quality, tone
				(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚sound property ╚timbre, timber, quality, tone ╚register ╚shrillness; stridence; stridency ╚plangency; resonance; reverberance; ringing; sonorousness; sonority; vibrancy ╚nasality ╚fullness; mellowness; richness ╚harshness; roughness ╚color; colour; coloration; colouration ╚resonance
	4	forest, woodland, timberland, timber
				land that is covered with trees and shrubs
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚land; dry land; earth; ground; solid ground; terra firma ╚forest, woodland, timberland, timber ╚tree farm ╚silva; sylva ╚Sherwood Forest ╚riparian forest ╚rain forest; rainforest ╚jungle ╚greenwood ╚Black Forest; Schwarzwald
	5	lumber, timber
				the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚building material ╚lumber, timber ╚planking ╚board; plank ╚strip ╚stock

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