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How to pronounce “timber”

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Pronunciation guide for timber

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of timber with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest 22 minutesto get their hands on the last timber
Definition summary: (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

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Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest 22 minutes

to get their hands on the last timber

[Noun]
(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
Material for any structure.
(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
(cricket, slang) The stumps.
[Interjection]
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
[Verb]
(transitive) To fit with timbers.
(transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
(falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
(obsolete) To make a nest.
(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.