Scantling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCANTLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• A fragment; a bit; a little piece.
• A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.
• A small quantity; a little bit; not much.
• A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.
• The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.
• A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.
• A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
NOUN:
• a small portion
• a timber beam of small cross section.
• the size to which a piece of timber or stone is measured and cut.
• a set of standard dimensions for parts of a structure, especially in shipbuilding.
• a specimen, sample, or small amount of something.
• piece of sawn timber, such as a rafter, that has a small cross section
• an upright in house framing
ADJECTIVE:
• Not plentiful; small; scanty.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the dimensions of timber and stone used in building; the dimensions of a structural element used in shipbuilding —often used in plural

Words related to SCANTLING

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Words that contain SCANTLING

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How to use SCANTLING in a sentence

• Owing to some enthusiastically concerted but ill-directed engineering, the scantling with its human burden had jammed crosswise of the posts.
• Loosing his hold on the scantling, he retreated upon the feet of those behind.
• It contains, like her account of the funeral of the poet, much positive falsehood, and gross improbability, with some slight scantling of foundation in fact.
• On a piece of scantling which lay in the lot where the contest took place, I scratched the score.
• XXXIX Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
• The material of which the church was to be built was tar paper and scantling.
• With large blocks it is often necessary to paste into the jacket, on upper or both sides, boards, scantling or sticks of wood to secure additional rigidity.
• Sometimes the top-arming was of scantling, or thin plank, in which case it was called a pavesse.
• Bailey went out to the front of the shanty to look at the lantern he had set up on a scantling.
• Then he picked up a loose scantling and with it pried and wrenched off the top bar of the fence in one section and vaulted into the enclosure.
• A 2 by 4 inch scantling 14 feet long was used for the backbone of the boat.
• The scantling was placed on edge, and to lighten it and improve its appearance it was tapered fore and aft from a point 4 feet from the bow end.
• Two of them were cut from a 2 by 4 scantling and measured a foot in length.
• These were made of a 2 x 4-inch scantling, sawed diagonally in two and then planed down to the given dimensions.
• These were laid on edge just 30 inches apart, and then a number of boards were nailed across from one scantling to the other and sawed off flush with their edges.
• Then in these blocks holes were drilled which were carried clear through the scantling.
• A patch of wood was nailed to the scantling over each bolt head to prevent the bolt from slipping back into the car.
• I found a hiding place in a pile of boards or scantling, where I kept concealed during that day.

Similar words containing SCANTL without suffix ing

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