timber
tim ber
- n the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- n a beam made of wood
- n a post made of wood
- n land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- n (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- There, he saw a pristine stream that had been ruined by runoff from timber clear cutting.
- Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices.
- That means standing up to the deeply entrenched business and military interests that have richly profited from Papuan timber.