The difference between Crosstree and Timber
When used as nouns, crosstree means a light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up, whereas timber means trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Timber is also interjection with the meaning: used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Timber is also verb with the meaning: to fit with timbers.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crosstree and Timber
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Crosstree as a noun (nautical):
A light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up
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Timber as a noun (uncountable):
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
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Timber as a noun (outside, North America, uncountable):
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
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Timber as a noun (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.
Examples:
"the timbers of a ship"
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Timber as a noun:
Material for any structure.
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Timber as a noun (firearms, informal):
The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
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Timber as a noun (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.
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Timber as a verb (transitive):
To fit with timbers.
Examples:
"timbering a roof"
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Timber as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To construct, frame, build.
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Timber as a verb (falconry, intransitive):
To light or land on a tree.
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Timber as a verb (obsolete):
To make a nest.
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Timber as a verb (transitive):
To surmount as a timber does.
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Timber as a noun: