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n. 1 (plural of scantling English) 2 (context nautical English) The dimensions of the timbers of a ship
Usage examples of "scantlings".
It was inconceivable that the Mostert brothers had invited him here to talk about scantlings and hover performance.
She was only a sloop of war, her timbers and her scantlings more fragile even than those of a frigate.
She was an eighty‑four, with dimensions and scantlings worthy of a three‑decker.
She was an eighty-four, with dimensions and scantlings worthy of a three-decker.
Now she could be battered to destruction by an enemy twice her size, with four times her weight of metal, with scantlings twice as thick to keep out Hotspur's feeble shot.
The Scantlings had taken over, and that sect's insistence on uniformity of dress, diet, appearance, possessions, beliefs, and behavior had created the peculiar form of urban paralysis so characteristic of the second decade of this century.
He could lay his ship alongside Castilla on her unoccupied side, but her slender scantlings would bear little of Castilla's ponderous broadside.