scantling
Americannoun
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a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
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such timbers collectively.
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the width and thickness of a timber.
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the dimensions of a building stone.
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Nautical.
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a dressed timber or rolled metal member used as a framing member in a vessel.
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the dimension, in cross section, of a framing member.
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a small quantity or amount.
noun
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a piece of sawn timber, such as a rafter, that has a small cross section
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the dimensions of a piece of building material or the structural parts of a ship, esp those in cross section
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a building stone, esp one that is more than 6 feet in length
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a small quantity or amount
Etymology
Origin of scantling
1520–30; scant + -ling 1; replacing Middle English scantilon < Old French escantillon gauge
Vocabulary lists containing scantling
Example Sentences
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Eighty-two shipments of teak consisting mostly of board and scantling used for shipbuilding, outdoor decking and furniture were exported last year, according to the watchdog group, whose findings were gleaned from the trade database Panjiva.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022
Last week, after six years' inspection of every scantling and joist of MOP's overbalanced capital structure, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its plan of reorganization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a comer of one of the galleries.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
The "great trombone" was a dry goods box, turned bottom-side up, and was played upon with a scantling eight or ten feet long.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
Then standing up he looked back at the frigate he had left, taking in all her points, the number of her guns, and marking her heavy scantling with a critic's eye.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James
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