boats is a form of:
Timber
Same as: timmernoun
- 1.
- (wood for building houses, ships, etc., growing trees suitable for this, a piece of wood wooded land, a beam used in constructing a house or ship) raise timber ដើមឈើ (សម្រាប់កាប់យកទៅអារធ្វើគ្រឿងសង់ផ្ទះ ។ល។), 12foot timber ធ្នឹម Nautical. boat's timber ធុងទូក
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ឈើ, ឈើសម្រាប់កាប់
verb — past tense: timbered ; past participle: timbered ; present participle: timbering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to build support or cover with timber) timber a house ដាក់ធ្នឹម timber a mountain ដាំឈើ
interjection
- 1.
- (A shouted warning that a tree is about to fall. -timberland, timber forest land covering with timber producing forests) ឈើរលំ! ប្រយ័ត្នឈើរលំហើយ!
Example: The houses are made of timber, Large timbers were used in building the bridge, The timbers burned down.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber.
- 2.
- The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
- 3.
- (FIGURATIVE) Material for any structure.
- 4.
- A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
- 5.
- Woods or forest; wooden land.
- 6.
- A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
- 7.
- A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
- 8.
- The crest on a coat of arms.
verb — past tense: timbered ; past participle: timbered ; present participle: timbering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To surmount as a timber does.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To light on a tree.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To make a nest.