scantlings

/ ˈskæntlɪŋz /

plural 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.

The rails were oak scantlings held together with cross timbers of the same material, fastened by means of large oak pins.

The "scantlings" of the Marquis of Worcester were now being converted into complete structures.

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

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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