scantlings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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There are at least four walls to it—a few scantlings over one, protecting one from all space.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
Two of the crew were at the pumps—the deck load, which consisted of boards, scantlings and oars, piled on each side as high as their heads—the other two people were probably on the quarter deck.
From Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. by Daniel Collins
In general, scantlings of wood from 1 inch to 3 inches broad.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
It is an important timber-tree, manufactured into all descriptions of scantlings, boarding and finish, but the wood is of various qualities.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The floor was laid on 2 × 4 inch scantlings, so there was nothing to keep snakes from working their way under.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
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