timmer

timmer noun: timber.

Noun

timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)

(Scotland) timber
- Though no a bird can now be heard
  ⁠Upon the leafless timmer;
  Whate'er betide, the ingle side
  ⁠Can mak' the winter simmer!1811-1813, Captain Charles Gray, Though Boreas bauld (song)
- "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."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...

Proper noun capitalized: Timmer

Timmer (plural Timmers)

A surname from Dutch [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Carpenter for a carpenter from Dutch timmer (“construction, room”).

Forms of timmer

Noun
plural	timmers
Proper noun
plural	Timmers
alternative form	Timmers
alternative form	Timmerman
alternative form	Timmermans

Origin of timmer

* As a Dutch and north German surname, from Timmer (“timber”). * Also as a north German surname, variant of Thiemer, Dittmar, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *þeudu (“people”) + *mari (“famous”).

Words formed from timmer

belly-timmer

Questions about timmer

What does timmer mean?: Timmer means timber.
What part of speech is timmer?: Timmer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of timmer?: The plural of timmer is timmers.

Words near timmer in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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