Figure 2: Collocates of timber in the Early Dictionaries

ADJECTIVES APPLIED TO
apt, big, black, bowing, chinked, cloven, crooked, fit, flanking, four-square, great, hard, high, knotty, little, oaken, old, perished, plain, ready for use, rolling, rotten, round, scored, small, smooth, soft, strong, substantial, upright, whitish, yellowish

AGENTS ACTING ON
carpenter, chipper, cleaver, cutter, dealer, hewer, joiner, porter, sawier, squarer, woodman, woodmonger, worker

VERBS, IN PHRASES GOVERNED BY
abide, bear up, bore, buckle, build, burn, carve, chalk, chip, close, cut, cut down, deal with, dig out, drive, fashion, fasten, fell, frame, hack, handle, heave, hew, hold, indent, intail, join, lay, lift, make, mark, nail, overwhelm, pin, plane, remove, roll, rough hew, saw, sell, set on fire, square, take, tie together, unfurnish, unwood, work in

VERBS, SUBJECT OF
bring to coals, burn, cleave, keep up, lie, perish, stay, support, sustain, underset

NOUNS ASSOCIATED WITH
architecture, bastile, beam, board, brace, bracket, bragget, bridge, building, cartridge, chamfer, channel, chevron, chip-axe, cleaving, corner, cottage, cross-beam, cupboard, door, dressing, end, engraving, fabrile, fire, flanker, float-boat, foot, footstock, form, fortification, furniture, furrow, futtock, gable, girder, grain, grate, groundsill, grove, gum, gutter, half-beam, headpiece, heart of wood, herber, hole, hook, house, hovel, hurdle, iawm, image, joint, joist, knee, knop, knot, knurre, lever, line, line tree, lion-piece, log, mark, mast, mortise, oak, ordinance, patching, peg, parclose, piece, pile, piller, pin, plane-axe, planings, plank, plumb rule, pole, poop, post, powder, press, prop, prow, quarter, rabbet, raft, rafter, rail, rate, red ochre, ridge-piece, roller, roof, row, sale, saw, sawdust, score, shavings, ship, shouldering piece, sill, spar, stake, stay, step, stool, stub, stuff, summer, swallow tail, table, tenon, threshold, timbring, token, tower, transom, tree, tresell, trough, underprop, vault, vein, wall, watch-tower, water, whipsaw, wood, worm