scantling
/ˈskæntlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes."
- "Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people."
- "A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years."
- "Reducing them to narrow scantlings."
- "Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries."
- "These casks should be placed upon scantling or scaffolding , and not upon the ground in the cellar"
Etymology
Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.