1640 in I. 138 None shall fell any oke timber within half a mile of this part of the town.
1767 A. Young 157 Complaints of the decay of oak timber.
1875 T. Laslett viii. 47 Oak timber..in its worst stage of ‘foxiness’.
1991 18 Aug. (Mag.) 11/1 There's a lot of tossing around oak timbers.