scantling
IPA: skˈæntɫɪŋ
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
- (archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.
- A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
- (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
- (obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
- (obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
adjective
- Not plentiful; small; scanty.
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Examples of "scantling" in Sentences
- Of learning long a scantling was the portion of the Gael,
- Of learning long a scantling was the portion of the Gael, vol. v.,
- You have not got the scantling for the metal you carry and are always working.
- The third are gratiosi, favorites; such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign, and harmless to the people.
- The blood of the sergeant crept close to his fingers before the earth drank down these scantling rivulets and that spring dried up once and forever.
- Its time of flowers, and even of fruits, was over; but a scantling of apples enriched the trees; only a blossom here and there expanded pale and delicate amidst a knot of faded leaves.
- On the inside of the door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the number 50, so that one hesitated.
- “And” (resumed Salih the Pious) “if we stood on our faces in thy service, O King of the Age, a thousand years, yet had we not the might to requite thee, and this were but a scantling of thy due.”
- The top of the shapeless bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as wicket and air-hole when the door was closed.
- For, in this narrow scantling of capacity which we are accustomed to and sensible of here, wherein we enjoy but one pleasure at once, which, when all uneasiness is away, is, whilst it lasts, sufficient to make us think ourselves happy, it is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us.
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