Home > Synonyms > Synonyms for scantling

Synonyms for scantling

Grammar : Noun
Spell : skant-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskænt lɪŋ

Top 10 synonyms for scantling
Other synonyms for the word scantling

Définition of scantling

Origin :
  • 1520s, "measured or prescribed size," altered from scantlon, scantiloun "dimension" (c.1400), earlier a type of mason's tool for measuring thickness (c.1300), a shortening of Old French escantillon (Modern French échantillon "sample pattern"), of uncertain origin; perhaps ultimately from Latin scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Sense influenced by scant. Meaning "small wooden beam" is 1660s. Related: Scantlings.
  • As in beam : noun length of material used as support
  • As in stud : noun studding
  • As in rafter : noun beam
Example sentences :
  • By the aid of a scantling I managed to get up onto the high brick wall.
  • Extract from : « With Fire and Sword » by Samuel H. M. Byers
  • Then came the hurdle-race, with the hurdles woven from cedar and scantling.
  • Extract from : « Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes » by Sylvia Sunshine
  • Look out there, Jerry, or that piece of scantling will be down on your head!
  • Extract from : « The Motor Boys Over the Ocean » by Clarence Young
  • Only her scantling and her tonnage unfitted her for frigate-service.
  • Extract from : « The Maid of Sker » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • The scantling of the hatch-cover that secured them was of unusual thickness.
  • Extract from : « My Danish Sweetheart, Volume 3 of 3 » by William Clark Russell
  • The plundered boards and scantling had to be carried by the men half a mile.
  • Extract from : « Soldiering in North Carolina » by Thomas Kirwan
  • You have not got the scantling for the metal you carry and are always working.
  • Extract from : « Springhaven » by R. D. Blackmore
  • There it stopped, supported as before, by short pieces of scantling.
  • Extract from : « The Chainbearer » by J. Fenimore Cooper
  • The material of which the church was to be built was tar paper and scantling.
  • Extract from : « The Great War As I Saw It » by Frederick George Scott
  • Thither, however, I went with some secret expectation of a scantling of good claret.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) » by John Gibson Lockhart
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019