DCHP-3

timber ((interj.))

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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interj.

See 1912 quote.

Quotations

1912
Timber-r-r! the long-drawn melodious call of the sawyers in a lumber camp when the tree is about to fall.
1942
"Timber" is the traditional warning cry of fallers from coast to coast.
1962
From the time the first tall tree was felled on the Atlantic seaboard to make a mainmast for the Royal Navy, the cry of "Timber!" has spread westward.