scantling
English
Etymology
Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskantlɪŋ/
Noun
scantling (plural scantlings)
- (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.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:
- For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes.
- Francis Bacon
- Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
- Milton
- A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.
- Jeremy Taylor
- Reducing them to narrow scantlings.
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- 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.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- (obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
- (obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
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See also
Adjective
scantling (comparative more scantling, superlative most scantling)
- Not plentiful; small; scanty.
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