scantlings
Meaning of scantlings
- 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 scantlings
- It is a name.
- The singular form of scantlings is: scantling.
- Languages in which scantlings is used:
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Hyphenation of scantlings
scant-lings
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- scantlings is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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