Definitions for scantlings

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scantlings scant·ling

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IPA: /ˈskænt lɪŋ/

Scantlings is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 496 anagrams from letters in scantlings (acgilnnsst).

Definitions for scantlings

noun

1. a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
2. such timbers collectively.
3. the width and thickness of a timber.
4. the dimensions of a building stone.
5. Nautical. a dressed timber or rolled metal member used as a framing member in a vessel. the dimension, in cross section, of a framing member.
6. a small quantity or amount.

Origin of scantlings

1520-30; scant + -ling¹; replacing Middle English scantilon Old French escantillon gauge

Examples for scantlings

The sides of it are scantlings and the steps are narrow boards.

Between the scantlings that penned Simon into his part of the lean-to, the section-boss spied two glowing eyes.

She wondered whether she would ever like a plastered room as well as this one lined with scantlings.

I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings.

Nor would you consider it an occasion for especial jollification the day you erected the scantlings around the first floor joists.

It will send up the price of scantlings, and we was getting on too fast with them.

About all the timber required to erect one of these houses is for joists, scantlings, and doors.

There was only the churned water, filled with scantlings and torn branches of trees.

The house, which he owns, is a small shack or shanty constructed of scantlings and slabs.

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