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SCANTLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. obsolete : to cut down the supply of 2. [probably back-formation from scantling entry 1] obsolete : to adjust to a standard of measure.
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SCANTLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
scantling in American English · 1. a small quantity or amount · 2. dimensions of building material · 3. a small beam or timber, esp. one of small cross section, ...
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scantle, v. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the mid 1700s. scantle developed meanings and uses in subjects including. birds (late 1500s) sailing ( ...
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scantle
▪ I. ˈscantle, n. Also 6 skantell. [? f. scantle v.] 1. = scantlet 1, scantling n. 2 b.c 1525 Contract in Gage Hengrave (1822) 43 All man{supr} of tymber, hewyn and sawyn, of all manner of skantells, y{supt} shall be nedeful and redy to y⊇ worke. 2. A small piece or portion, a scantling. In 1596 ‘sc...
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Scantle - Websters Dictionary 1828
SCANT'LE, verb transitive To be deficient; to fail. SCANT'LE, verb intransitive To divide into thin or small pieces; to shiver.
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scantle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A gauge for measuring slates. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and ...
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The walls were of snecked serpentine blocks, and the roof had clay ridge tiles and a scantle slate roof.
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scantle, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun scantle is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for scantle is from around 1525, in Contract. scantle is perhaps ...
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"SCANTLE": Cut stone or slate into sizes - OneLook
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down. · ▸ verb: (intransitive) To be deficient; to ...
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To scant/scantle : r/logophilia - Reddit
However, scant can also be a verb. An obsolete spelling of this is "scantle." To limit in amount or share. To fail, or become less.
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scantle - definition and meaning - Wordnik
To become less; fail; be or become deficient. To make less; lessen; draw in. To cut up or divide into small pieces; partition ...
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scantelize
† ˈscantelize, v. Obs. [f. scantle n. + -ize. Cf. scandalize v.2] trans. To shorten, curtail.1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. iii. §22. 18 By which account the great supposed antiquity of Brute, is now lessened by seuen hundred fiftie and two yeares; and the time so scantelized betwixt his and Cesars e...
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scantlet
† 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...
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Tinner's Arms
Grouted or slurried scantle slate roofs. Dressed granite stacks over the original gable ends."
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scandalize
▪ I. scandalize, v.1 (ˈskændəlaɪz) [a. F. scandaliser (OF. escandalisier), ad. eccl. L. scandalizāre, ad. late Gr. σκανδαλίζειν, f. σκάνδαλον: see scandal n. and -ize. Cf. Sp. escandalizar, Pg. escandalisar, It. scandalizzare, scandalezzare.] † 1. trans. To bruit abroad, make a public scandal of (a ...
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