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scantling

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scant·ling  (skntlng, -ln)
n.
1. A very small amount; a modicum.
2. A small timber used in construction.
3. The dimensions of a building material, especially the width and thickness of a timber.
4. Nautical The dimensions of the structural parts of a vessel. Often used in the plural.

[Alteration of Middle English scantlon, scantilon, carpenter's gauge, from Old French escantillon, alteration of *eschandillon, from Late Latin *scandiculum, alteration of scandculum, ladder, gauge, from Latin scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]

scantling [ˈskæntlɪŋ]
n
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a piece of sawn timber, such as a rafter, that has a small cross section
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) the dimensions of a piece of building material or the structural parts of a ship, esp those in cross section
3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a building stone, esp one that is more than 6 feet in length
4. a small quantity or amount
[changed (through influence of scant and -ling1) from earlier scantillon, a carpenter's gauge, from Old Norman French escantillon, ultimately from Latin scandere to climb; see scan]

Scantling a small quantity—Johnson, 1755.
Examples: scantling of apples, 1849; of burgundy, 1765; of eloquence, 1704; of food 1835; of geological knowledge, 1876; of paper, 1743; of time, 1665; of wit, 1680.
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Noun1.scantlingscantling - an upright in house framing          
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
upright, vertical - a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"


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The third are gratiosi, favorites; such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign, and harmless to the people.
Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform.
 
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