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SCANTLING , measurement or prescribed See also:size, dimensions, particularly used of See also:timber and See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone and also of vessels. In regard to timber the scantling is the thickness and breadth, the sectional dimensions; in the See also:case of stone the dimensions of thickness, breadth and length; in See also:shipbuilding the collective dimensions of the various parts. The word is a variation of
scantillon," a See also:carpenter's or See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason's measuring See also:tool, also used of the measurements taken by it, and of a piece of timber of small size cut as a See also:sample. The 0. Fr. escantillon, mod: echantillon, is usually taken to be related to Ital. scandaglio, See also:sounding-See also:line (See also:Lat. scandere, to climb; cf. scansio, the metrical scansion). It was probably influenced by See also:cancel, cantle, a small piece, a corner piece. The See also:English See also:form " scantling " was no
2 Cf J. A. Lundell, " Skandinavische Mundarten " (Grundriss der germanischen Philologie; 2. Aufl. 1901).
s The substance of these researches was presented in' a See also:magazine, called Norvegia (1887), which employed an See also:alphabet invented by See also:Storm.
doubt partly due to a confusion with " scant," stinted, of See also:short I measure; this is for scamt, cf. " skimpy," " See also:scamp " (q.v.), and is related to O.N. skammr, short, brief.
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