scantling
Meaning of scantling
- a timber beam of small cross section.
- a set of standard dimensions for parts of a structure, especially in shipbuilding.
- a specimen, sample, or small amount of something.
early 16th century (denoting prescribed size, or a set of standard dimensions): alteration of obsolete scantillon (from Old French escantillon ‘sample’), by association with the suffix -ling.
Information about scantling
- It is a name.
- The plural form of scantling is: scantlings.
- Languages in which scantling is used:
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Hyphenation of scantling
scant-ling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- scantling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
scantling synonyms
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