scantle

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskæntəl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Etymology 1

Old French escanteler, eschanteler.

Verb

scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

Etymology 2

From scant +‎ -le.

Verb

scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)

  1. (intransitive) To be deficient; to fail.

Noun

scantle (plural scantles)

  1. 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 hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scantle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.