† ˈscantlet Obs.
Also 6 scanlot.
[? f. scantle n. + -et1; or f. scantling by substitution of the suffix -let for -ling.]
1. Prescribed size, scantling.
| 1502–3 (4 Jan.) Office of Augment. Miscell. Bk. xxxvi. No. 146, iiij{supc}. M{supl}. of goode lawfull & sufficiant breke [= bricks] & thurgh & suerly to be brent and after the Scanlot of ix ynches & a halfe of lengthe large & in brede & thyknes accordynge to the same lengthe. |
2. ? A limit, boundary.
| 1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Ystordyn [‘a trigger in bowling; a mark to jump from’ (Owen Pugh)], scantlet. |
3. A limited quantity, small portion.
| a 1642 Suckling Lett. to Sev. Persons of Honor (1659) 9, I have been something curious to consider the scantlet of ground that angry Monsieur would have had in. [Allusion to Shakes.: see quot. 1596, scantle n. 1.] a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 226 As the World grew by that means fuller, so their Lives were successively reduced to a shorter scantlet, till they came to that ordinary Age..which now they have. |