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
A saw "pit" is a scantling of poles eight feet high, on which the logs are placed to be sawn.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
In crossing Pratt-street bridge, the troops had to pick their way over joists and scantling, which by this time had been placed on the bridge to obstruct their passage.
From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by George William Brown
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