Now rare. Wood suitable for structural purposes; = TIMBER sb.1 3.

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c. 1483.  Caxton, Dialogues, 40. Alle the tymbre woode, tous les boys charpentifs.

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1579.  E. K., Gloss, in Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Feb., 146. Trees of state, taller trees fitte for timber wood.

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1602.  Fulbecke, 2nd Pt. Parall., 52. He shal not meddle with great timber-woode without the assent of his lessor…. But the cutting of dead wood is not waste.

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1653.  H. More, Antid. Ath., II. iii. (1712), 47 (heading), The designed Usefulness of Quarries of Stone, Timber-Wood, Metals, and Minerals.

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1899.  Westm. Gaz., 15 Feb., 7/3. There have … been many substitutes proposed … for breakwaters…. Well-knit timber-wood, filled in with stones, does very well.

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