The vessel plunged and rolled throughout the night, her timbers groaning, and the wind shrieking through her rigging.
"A Desperate Voyage"
Edward Frederick Knight
Time had shrunk their stout timbers and tapped their contents.
"A Maid of the Silver Sea"
John Oxenham
From one side of the plain to the other there were no trees but the palm and the poplar from which timbers of any length could be cut.
"A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1"
Georges Perrot Charles Chipiez