Definitions for scantling

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scantling scant·ling

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IPA: /ˈskænt lɪŋ/

Scantling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in scantling (acgilnnst).

Definitions for scantling

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 scantling

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

Examples for scantling

By the aid of a scantling I managed to get up onto the high brick wall.

Look out there, Jerry, or that piece of scantling will be down on your head!

You have not got the scantling for the metal you carry and are always working.

The plundered boards and scantling had to be carried by the men half a mile.

Only her scantling and her tonnage unfitted her for frigate-service.

The material of which the church was to be built was tar paper and scantling.

The scantling of the hatch-cover that secured them was of unusual thickness.

Then came the hurdle-race, with the hurdles woven from cedar and scantling.

Thither, however, I went with some secret expectation of a scantling of good claret.

There it stopped, supported as before, by short pieces of scantling.