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Dunnage vs. Timber — What's the Difference?

Dunnage vs. Timber — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dunnage and Timber

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Dunnage

Dunnage is inexpensive or waste material used to load and secure cargo during transportation; more loosely, it refers to miscellaneous baggage, brought along during travel. The term can also refer to low-priority cargo used to fill out transport capacity which would otherwise ship underweight.

Timber

Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.

Dunnage

Loose packing material used to protect a ship's cargo from damage during transport.

Timber

Wood used as a building material; lumber.

Dunnage

Personal baggage.
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Timber

A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.

Dunnage

Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.

Timber

(Nautical) A rib in a ship's frame.

Dunnage

Personal effects; baggage.

Timber

A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity
That trainee is executive timber.

Dunnage

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

Timber

To support or frame with timbers
Timber a mine shaft.

Timber

Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.

Timber

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Collect timber
Cut down timber

Timber

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Timber

(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
The timbers of a ship

Timber

Material for any structure.

Timber

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Timber

(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

Timber

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Timber

(transitive) To fit with timbers.
Timbering a roof

Timber

To construct, frame, build.

Timber

To light or land on a tree.

Timber

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Timber

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Timber

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

Timber

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timber

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!

Timber

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timber

Fig.: Material for any structure.
Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of.

Timber

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
So they prepared timber . . . to build the house.
Many of the timbers were decayed.

Timber

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timber

A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

Timber

To surmount as a timber does.

Timber

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
His bark is stoutly timbered.

Timber

To light on a tree.

Timber

To make a nest.

Timber

The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timber

A beam made of wood

Timber

A post made of wood

Timber

Land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timber

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);
The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet

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