scantlings

How to use scantlings in a sentence

• Let no one laugh at the character of many of these 'scantlings.'

  The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 | Various

• The boy held the end of the telescope against one of the veranda scantlings, while the man gazed through it at the sea.

  Adventure | Jack London

• The sections of these three ships are shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with their principal scantlings.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 | Various

• "We hove everything overboard but our top sides and scantlings," returned Reed.

  Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 | James Barnes

• For smoothing the surface and filling up depressions a float or drag made from planks or scantlings will be found serviceable.

  The Vegetable Garden | Anonymous