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▪ I. ˈscantle, n.
Also 6 skantell.
[? f. scantle v.]
1. = scantlet 1, scantling n. 2 b.
c1525Contract in Gage Hengrave (1822) 43 All manr of tymber, hewyn and sawyn, of all manner of skantells, yt shall be nedeful and redy to y⊇ worke.
2. A small piece or portion, a scantling.
In 1596 ‘scantle’ of the Qq. is perh. simply an error for ‘cantle’, the reading of the Ff.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 100 (1st Qo.) See how this riuer comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land, A huge halfe moon, a monstrous scantle out. 1654Vilvain Theorem. Theol. vii. 194 The future cannot be confined to so short a scantle.
3. Slate-making. See quots. (two distinct senses).
1850Ogilvie, Scantle, among slaters, a gauge by which slates are regulated to their proper length. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 15 There are, in addition to these ‘size slate’..a small, irregular sort, called ‘scantle’, made of pieces too small to make ‘size slate’. This last kind is in great request in west Cornwall, and forms a very strong roof... All scantle is cut by boys. 1887Dict. Arch. Publ. Soc., Scantle, a gauge for regulating the proper length of slates. ‘Scantle slates’ are squared slates as opposed to rag slates.
▪ II. † ˈscantle, v. Obs.
Also 6 skantle, 7 scantel.
[? dimin. of scant v.: see -le 3. In sense 3 perh. a back-formation from scantling.]
1. trans. To give scant provision to, stint, put on short allowance; = scant v. 3.
1581Rich Farewell (Shaks. Soc.) 184 There to be fedd with bread and water, (and yet to be scantled with suche short alowance, as it was not able to suffice nature). 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. 220 Besides, you should be sometimes so scantled, for want of subjects, that [etc.].
b. with a thing as subject: To be wanting to, fail to supply. Cf. scant v. 3 d.
1641R. Brathwait Turtle's Triumph 15 Time would sooner faile me, then this subject scantle me.
2. To make scant or small; to diminish, cut down, curtail; to limit, restrict.
1596Harington Ulysses upon Ajax B 7 b, Loosing his repose, and scantling his repaste. 1596Lodge Wit's Miserie 14 The chines of Beefe in great houses are scantled to buie chains of gold. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xii. §7. 275 Vortiporus..succeeded him in the Kingdome of the Britains, which then was much scantled by the intrusions of the Saxons. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 40 Enlarged mercies must not be cooped up, or scantled.
b. To narrow the meaning or application of.
1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings v. 56, I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance [etc.]: which is not to be scantled by conceiving it onely of the calling of the Gentiles to the communion of his Church. Ibid. 65 This is not to be so scantled, as if there were no more influence from Kings upon the Church but by honour and riches.
3. To adjust to a required measure; to make proportionate to.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 110–111 We are not to expect a like exactnesse and accurate handling in all passages. But it sufficeth to be scantled according to the Subject. 1625J. Robinson Ess. iii. (1638) 18 How graciously our wise and good God provides for our slipperie state, in scantling his promise of good things of that kinde to our Spirituall skill, and care of using them. 1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 62 The Knee being scantled to suit the Stem as far as 'tis join'd to it.
4. To shorten (sail); similarly of a bird, to draw in (its wings). Cf. scandalize v.2
a1592Lodge & Greene Looking-glass (1598) F 2 b, Then scantled we our sailes with speedie hands. 1630Drayton Noah's Flood in Muses Eliz. 100 The soaring Kyte there scantled his large wings.
5. To parcel out.
1749Chesterfield Let. to Son 9 Oct., The Pope's..territories..will, most undoubtedly, within a century, be scantled out among the great Powers, who have now a footing in Italy.
6. intr. Of wind: To become ‘scant’. (But app. here taken to mean ‘to become light’.)
1627Drayton Moon-calf in Agincourt, etc. 173 She could sell windes to any one that would,..Which euer as the Seafarer vndid They rose or scantled, as his Sayles would driue, To the same Port whereas he would ariue.
Hence † ˈscantled ppl. a., made scant, limited.
1604Drayton Owle 1294 This small Portion of my scantled Store! 1622― Poly-olb. xxiv. 12 [Welland] in her scantled banks, though wandring long inclos'd. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 33 This was their pittance, and scantled allowance in those dayes. |