scantlen.

Forms: Also 1500s skantell.

Etymology: ? < scantle v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscantle.

1. = scantlet n. 1, scantling n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > measured or prescribed

scantillona1425

scantlet1502

scantlec1525

scantling1526

mensuration1675

sized1824

mete1834

c1525 Contract in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 43 All man^r of tymber, hewyn and sawyn, of all manner of skantells, y^t shall be nedeful and redy to y^e worke.

2. A small piece or portion, a scantling.In quot. 1598 ‘scantle’ of the Quarto is perhaps simply an error for ‘cantle’, the reading of the Folio.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece

fingereOE

snedec1000

seed?a1200

morselc1300

bittlock?a1400

farthingc1405

spota1413

lipetc1430

offe?1440

drewc1450

remnantc1450

parcel1483

crap1520

flakec1525

patch1528

spark1548

a piece1559

sparklec1570

inch1573

nibbling?1577

scantling1585

scrat1593

mincing1598

scantle1598

halfpenny1600

quantity1600

nip1606

kantch1608

bit1609

catch1613

scripa1617

snap1616

sippeta1625

crumblet1634

scute1635

scantleta1642

snattock1654

cantlet1700

tab1729

pallion1738

smallness1818

knobble1823

wisp1836

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 97 See how this riuer comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land, A huge halfe moone, a monstrous scantle [1623 Cantle] out.

1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica vii. 194 The future cannot be confined to so short a scantle.

3. Slating. See quots. (two distinct senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for determining or verifying dimensions > specific

size1763

limit gauge1841

plug gauge1850

scantle1850

string-gauge1876

snap gauge1918

burr-gauge-

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > piece of

slatc1384

slate1455

stone-slate1530

roof slate1784

scantle1850

1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Scantle, among slaters, a gauge by which slates are regulated to their proper length.

1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole 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.

1887 Dict. Arch. Publ. Soc. Scantle, a gauge for regulating the proper length of slates. ‘Scantle slates’ are squared slates as opposed to rag slates.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† scantlev.

Forms: Also 1500s skantle, 1600s scantel.

Etymology: ? diminutive of scant v.: see -le suffix 3. In sense 3 perhaps a back-formation < scantling n.

Obsolete.

a. transitive. To give scant provision to, stint, put on short allowance; = scant v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied

to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425

strait1513

scant1565

starve1570

scantle1581

shorten1599

scant1600

scant1607

short1620

straiten1627

famish1667

limit1670

scrimp1691

under-furnish1694

stint1722

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > treat in niggardly manner

princhea1393

pinch1557

scantle1581

scant1607

shavea1610

niggarda1616

churl1696

nickel-and-dime1913

1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (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).

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 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. 3d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > be wanting to (a person)

scantle1641

1641 R. Brathwait Turtles Triumph in Eng. Gentleman (ed. 3) 15 Time would sooner faile me, then this subject scantle me.

a. To make scant or small; to diminish, cut down, curtail; to limit, restrict.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)]

thinc900

narroweOE

smalleOE

slakea1300

adminisha1325

minisha1382

reduce?c1400

diminish1417

littlea1500

extenuate1555

enstraiten1590

scantle1596

scant1599

bedwarfa1631

epitomize1630

dwarf1638

retrench1640

stunt1659

to take in1700

belittle1785

dwarfify1816

reduct1819

micrify1836

clip1858

downsize1977

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > make scant

scantle1596

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail

wanea889

dockc1380

bridgec1384

abridgea1393

limita1398

syncopec1412

defalk1475

shortena1535

to cut short?1542

royn1573

retrench1587

curtail1589

retranch1589

lop1594

scantle1596

scant1599

scantelize1611

curtalize1622

defalce1651

detrench1655

barb1657

defalcatea1690

razee1815

detruncate1846

to cut down1857

shave1898

1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. B7^v Loosing his repose, and scantling his repaste.

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 14 The chines of Beefe in great houses are scantled to buie chains of gold.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xii. 320/1 Vortiporus..succeeded him in the Kingdome of the Britains, which then was much scantled by the intrusions of the Saxons.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 40 Enlarged mercies must not be cooped up, or scantled.

b. To narrow the meaning or application of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > mean, signify, express [verb (transitive)] > narrow meaning of

scantle1644

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 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.

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas v. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > render relative or proportionate > be proportionate to

measure1508

to hold measure with1611

scantle1621

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > make proportionate (to)

proportiona1398

qualify1548

modulatec1570

proportionate1570

measure1590

cantle1603

apportion1615

equal1618

commensurate1660

scantle1711

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 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.

1625 J. Robinson Ess. (1638) iii. 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.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 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

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (transitive)] > draw in the wings

scantle1594

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > reduce extent of sail

scantle1594

scandalize1862

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2^v Then scantled we our sailes with speedie hands.

1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 100 The soaring Kyte there scantled his large wings.

5. To parcel out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > divide and share out

dealc1000

shiftc1000

to-partc1325

partc1330

departa1340

divide1377

portion?a1400

dressc1410

parcel1416

skiftc1420

describe1535

repart1540

sever1548

disparklea1552

enterparten1556

share1577

to share out1583

repartitec1603

dispart1629

parcena1641

cavel1652

partage1660

split1674

snack1675

partition1740

scantle1749

appart1798

whack1819

divvy1877

number1887

cut1928

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1416 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. intransitive. Of wind: To become ‘scant’. (But apparently here taken to mean ‘to become light’.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow gently > drop or become light

scantle1627

dull1633

falter1745

slump1855

1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 173 She could sell windes to any one that would,..Which euer as the Sea-farer vndid They rose or scantled, as his Sayles would driue, To the same Port whereas he would ariue.

Derivatives

† ˈscantled adj. Obsolete made scant, limited.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount

narrowOE

poor?c1225

scarce1297

straitc1386

feeblea1513

scant1556

niggardly1564

slender1564

limited1590

scanted1594

sparing1602

scantled1604

stinted1629

exiguous1630

unlavished1635

scanty1658

unprofuse1727

costivea1734

incopious1734

niggard1751

jimp1768

skimped1839

stingy1854

restricted1856

niggard-measured1881

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G4^v This small portion of my scantled store!

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiv. 75 [Welland] in her scantled banks, though wandring long inclos'd.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 33 This was their pittance, and scantled allowance in those dayes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	scantle
释义	scantlen. Forms: Also 1500s skantell. Etymology: ? < scantle v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscantle. 1. = scantlet n. 1, scantling n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > measured or prescribed scantillona1425 scantlet1502 scantlec1525 scantling1526 mensuration1675 sized1824 mete1834 c1525 Contract in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 43 All man^r of tymber, hewyn and sawyn, of all manner of skantells, y^t shall be nedeful and redy to y^e worke. 2. A small piece or portion, a scantling.In quot. 1598 ‘scantle’ of the Quarto is perhaps simply an error for ‘cantle’, the reading of the Folio. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece fingereOE snedec1000 seed?a1200 morselc1300 bittlock?a1400 farthingc1405 spota1413 lipetc1430 offe?1440 drewc1450 remnantc1450 parcel1483 crap1520 flakec1525 patch1528 spark1548 a piece1559 sparklec1570 inch1573 nibbling?1577 scantling1585 scrat1593 mincing1598 scantle1598 halfpenny1600 quantity1600 nip1606 kantch1608 bit1609 catch1613 scripa1617 snap1616 sippeta1625 crumblet1634 scute1635 scantleta1642 snattock1654 cantlet1700 tab1729 pallion1738 smallness1818 knobble1823 wisp1836 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 97 See how this riuer comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land, A huge halfe moone, a monstrous scantle [1623 Cantle] out. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica vii. 194 The future cannot be confined to so short a scantle. 3. Slating. See quots. (two distinct senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for determining or verifying dimensions > specific size1763 limit gauge1841 plug gauge1850 scantle1850 string-gauge1876 snap gauge1918 burr-gauge- society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > piece of slatc1384 slate1455 stone-slate1530 roof slate1784 scantle1850 1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Scantle, among slaters, a gauge by which slates are regulated to their proper length. 1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole 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. 1887 Dict. Arch. Publ. Soc. Scantle, a gauge for regulating the proper length of slates. ‘Scantle slates’ are squared slates as opposed to rag slates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † scantlev. Forms: Also 1500s skantle, 1600s scantel. Etymology: ? diminutive of scant v.: see -le suffix 3. In sense 3 perhaps a back-formation < scantling n. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To give scant provision to, stint, put on short allowance; = scant v. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425 strait1513 scant1565 starve1570 scantle1581 shorten1599 scant1600 scant1607 short1620 straiten1627 famish1667 limit1670 scrimp1691 under-furnish1694 stint1722 the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > treat in niggardly manner princhea1393 pinch1557 scantle1581 scant1607 shavea1610 niggarda1616 churl1696 nickel-and-dime1913 1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (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). 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 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. 3d. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > be wanting to (a person) scantle1641 1641 R. Brathwait Turtles Triumph in Eng. Gentleman (ed. 3) 15 Time would sooner faile me, then this subject scantle me. 2. a. To make scant or small; to diminish, cut down, curtail; to limit, restrict. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] thinc900 narroweOE smalleOE slakea1300 adminisha1325 minisha1382 reduce?c1400 diminish1417 littlea1500 extenuate1555 enstraiten1590 scantle1596 scant1599 bedwarfa1631 epitomize1630 dwarf1638 retrench1640 stunt1659 to take in1700 belittle1785 dwarfify1816 reduct1819 micrify1836 clip1858 downsize1977 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > make scant scantle1596 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail wanea889 dockc1380 bridgec1384 abridgea1393 limita1398 syncopec1412 defalk1475 shortena1535 to cut short?1542 royn1573 retrench1587 curtail1589 retranch1589 lop1594 scantle1596 scant1599 scantelize1611 curtalize1622 defalce1651 detrench1655 barb1657 defalcatea1690 razee1815 detruncate1846 to cut down1857 shave1898 1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. B7^v Loosing his repose, and scantling his repaste. 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 14 The chines of Beefe in great houses are scantled to buie chains of gold. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xii. 320/1 Vortiporus..succeeded him in the Kingdome of the Britains, which then was much scantled by the intrusions of the Saxons. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 40 Enlarged mercies must not be cooped up, or scantled. b. To narrow the meaning or application of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > mean, signify, express [verb (transitive)] > narrow meaning of scantle1644 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 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. 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas v. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > render relative or proportionate > be proportionate to measure1508 to hold measure with1611 scantle1621 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > make proportionate (to) proportiona1398 qualify1548 modulatec1570 proportionate1570 measure1590 cantle1603 apportion1615 equal1618 commensurate1660 scantle1711 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 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. 1625 J. Robinson Ess. (1638) iii. 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. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 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 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (transitive)] > draw in the wings scantle1594 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > reduce extent of sail scantle1594 scandalize1862 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2^v Then scantled we our sailes with speedie hands. 1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 100 The soaring Kyte there scantled his large wings. 5. To parcel out. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > divide and share out dealc1000 shiftc1000 to-partc1325 partc1330 departa1340 divide1377 portion?a1400 dressc1410 parcel1416 skiftc1420 describe1535 repart1540 sever1548 disparklea1552 enterparten1556 share1577 to share out1583 repartitec1603 dispart1629 parcena1641 cavel1652 partage1660 split1674 snack1675 partition1740 scantle1749 appart1798 whack1819 divvy1877 number1887 cut1928 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1416 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. intransitive. Of wind: To become ‘scant’. (But apparently here taken to mean ‘to become light’.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow gently > drop or become light scantle1627 dull1633 falter1745 slump1855 1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 173 She could sell windes to any one that would,..Which euer as the Sea-farer vndid They rose or scantled, as his Sayles would driue, To the same Port whereas he would ariue. Derivatives † ˈscantled adj. Obsolete made scant, limited. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount narrowOE poor?c1225 scarce1297 straitc1386 feeblea1513 scant1556 niggardly1564 slender1564 limited1590 scanted1594 sparing1602 scantled1604 stinted1629 exiguous1630 unlavished1635 scanty1658 unprofuse1727 costivea1734 incopious1734 niggard1751 jimp1768 skimped1839 stingy1854 restricted1856 niggard-measured1881 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G4^v This small portion of my scantled store! 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiv. 75 [Welland] in her scantled banks, though wandring long inclos'd. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 33 This was their pittance, and scantled allowance in those dayes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1525v.1581
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