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单词 scantlet
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scantletn.

Forms: Also 1500s scanlot.
Etymology: ? < scantle n. + -et suffix1; or < scantling n. by substitution of the suffix -let suffix for -ling.
Obsolete.
1. Prescribed size, scantling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > measured or prescribed
scantillona1425
scantlet1502
scantlec1525
scantling1526
mensuration1675
sized1824
mete1834
1502–3 Augmentation Office: Misc. Bks. xxxvi. No. 146 iiijc Ml. of goode lawfull & sufficiant breke [= bricks] & thurgh & suerly to be brent and after the Scanlot of ix ynches & a halfe of lengthe large & in brede & thyknes accordynge to the same lengthe.
2. ? A limit, boundary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]
goalc1350
bounda1387
list1389
finea1400
frontier1413
enda1425
limit1439
buttal1449
headroom1462
band1470
mete?1473
buttinga1475
bounder1505
pale?a1525
butrelle1546
scantlet1547
limesa1552
divisec1575
meta1587
line1595
marginc1595
closure1597
Rubicon1613
bournea1616
boundary1626
boundure1634
verge1660
terminary1670
meta1838
1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Ystordyn [‘a trigger in bowling; a mark to jump from’ (Owen Pugh)], scantlet.
3. A limited quantity, small portion.
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
a1642 J. Suckling Lett. to Persons of Honor (1659) 9 I have been something curious to consider the scantlet of ground that angry Monsieur would have had in. [Allusion to Shakes.: see quot. 1598 at scantle n. 2.]
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 226 As the World grew by that means fuller, so their Lives were successively reduced to a shorter scantlet, till they came to that ordinary Age..which now they have.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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