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Galleon vs. Timber — What's the Difference?

Galleon vs. Timber — What's the Difference?

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Galleon

Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-1600s. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.

Timber

Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.

Galleon

A sailing ship in use (especially by Spain) from the 15th to the 18th centuries, originally as a warship, later for trade. Galleons were typically square-rigged and had three or more decks and masts
A Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys

Timber

Wood used as a building material; lumber.

Galleon

A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and usually two or more decks, used in the 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s, especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.
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Timber

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

Galleon

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

Timber

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

Galleon

A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles.

Timber

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

Galleon

A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries

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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