timmer

plural timmers

1. Scotlandcountableuncountabletimber

   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)

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   "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 Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC

plural Timmers · alternative Timmers · alternative Timmerman · alternative Timmermans

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