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timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)

1. (Scotland) timber
   • 1811-1813, Captain Charles Gray, Though Boreas bauld (song):

     Though no a bird can now be heard
     ⁠Upon the leafless timmer;
     Whate'er betide, the ingle side
     ⁠Can mak' the winter simmer!

   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     "Forbye," said the Butler, most irreverently raising his voice to a pitch which drowned his master's, "the fire made fast on us, owing to the store of tapestry and carved timmer in the banqueting ha', and the loons ran like scauded rats so soon as they heard of the gunpouther."