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By RYAN HUME
Timber
[tɪm•bɚr]
noun
1. Prepared wood meant
for carpentry or other build-
ing; lumber. Also, a single
piece of wood that makes
up part of a structure
2. Wood grown spe-
cifi cally for harvest and
cultivation
3. Informal: a personal
characteristic that qualifi es
someone for a particular
position. Usually used with
an adjective, i.e., a presiden-
tial timber
4. Exclamation: an
expression yelled to warn
others of a felled tree
5. Nautical slang: (tim-
bers, pl.) one of the curved
pieces of wood that forms a
ship’s hull
AP PHOTO/DON RYAN
A large fi r tree heads to the forest fl oor after it is cut by an
unidentifi ed logger in the Umpqua National Forest near
Oakridge, Oregon.
Canadian English and is fi rst
recorded in 1912.
PHOTO BY JOSHUA BESSEX
A man walks along the deck of the Ken Rei bulk carrier in December 2014. The carrier left the
Port of Astoria with nearly 5 million board feet of timber.
Origin:
Arrives in Old English
with the current spell-
ing around 900 by way
of the cognate of the
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Germanic zimmer and the
Old Norse timbr, both of
which mean “a building”
or “room.”
The plural nautical
term enters English in
1748.
As an exclamation for a
tree falling, the term origi-
nates in the north by way of
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“The object of the government
in endeavoring to prevent the waste
and destruction of public timber is,
primarily, to preserve it for the wants
of future generations — having, of
course, due regard for the require-
ment of the present.”
— “Instructions to Special Timber Agents,”
The Daily Astorian, Thursday, Aug. 23, 1883, P. 1
“The big raft of logs which
contains many million feet of lum-
ber, will put to sea this morning
under command of Captain H. R.
Robertson. The captain says that
he has one of the finest rafts ever
floated, and that the spars and
timbers are A1.”
— “Derelicts at Sea: Are Rafts of
Logs a Menace to Ocean Navigation?,”
The Daily Astorian, Thursday, Aug. 20,
1896, P. 7
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41 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
1972
Join us for the play
Astoria Part One
at Portland Center Stage at Th e Armory
Based on the book
ASTORIA: John Jacob Astor and Th omas Jeff erson’s Lost Pacifi c Empire,
A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by Peter Stark
S undial Travel and Cruise
has purchased a limited quantity
of orchestra seating for the performance on
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2017
Sunday, February 12th
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503-325-1787
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A pre-performance Back Stage Tour included
with 2:00 matinee performance.
Round-trip transportation
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