scantlings
Britishplural noun
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When sawn into the scantlings required, it is further dried by placing the logs and planks in rooms heated by the waste steam from the engine.
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The rails were oak scantlings held together with cross timbers of the same material, fastened by means of large oak pins.
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The "scantlings" of the Marquis of Worcester were now being converted into complete structures.
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"We hove everything overboard but our top sides and scantlings," returned Reed.
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Brick walls were blown into millions of fragments, roofs were torn to pieces; rafters, beams, braces, scantlings, were splintered into jack-straws.
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