Crossword clues for scantling
scantling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scantling \Scant"ling\, a. [See Scant, a.]
Not plentiful; small; scanty. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.
Scantling \Scant"ling\, n. [Cf. OF. eschantillon, F. ['e]chantillon, a sample, pattern, example. In some senses confused with scant insufficient. See Scantle, v. t.]
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A fragment; a bit; a little piece. Specifically:
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A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample. [Obs.]
Such as exceed not this scantling; -- to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
--Bacon.A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.
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A small quantity; a little bit; not much. [Obs.]
Reducing them to narrow scantlings.
--Jer. Taylor.
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A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.
The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.
A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.
A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
--Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "measured or prescribed size," altered from scantlon, scantiloun "dimension" (c.1400), earlier a type of mason's tool for measuring thickness (c.1300), a shortening of Old French escantillon (Modern French échantillon "sample pattern"), of uncertain origin; perhaps ultimately from Latin scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Sense influenced by scant. Meaning "small wooden beam" is 1660s. Related: Scantlings.
Wiktionary
a. Not plentiful; small; scanty. n. 1 (context chiefly in the plural English) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft. 2 (context archaic English) A small portion, a scant amount. 3 A small, upright timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square. 4 (context obsolete English) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline. 5 (context obsolete English) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
WordNet
n. an upright in house framing [syn: stud]
Wikipedia
Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.
Usage examples of "scantling".
No Scantling performs any kind of work on the Sabbath, so the streets were almost empty as I and Paula-she with a short coat of mine over her blouse and skirt and a scarf wrapped around her head-made our way to the Institute for Probatory Therapies.
He rolled his banjo eyes at Laura as he held up a shimmery scantling.
They know very well what the poor old Dolphin is worth, for all her fresh putty and paint and gingerbread-work, and just how the Camel transport and the Vulture slop-ship are armed, and they beg us to keep well out in the offing on the thirteenth, and to take no notice, because the Diane is new and fast and has scantlings like a forty-gun ship - carries heavy metal - would sink any one of us with a single broadside - crew admirably well trained with both great guns and small-arms - her tops full of riflemen like those in the Redoutable who killed Lord Nelson.
The measurements of a cut board were the scantlings, the squared-off rear was the transom, the piece of timber used to extend the bowsprit a jib boom, and the splice of timbers a scarph.
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.