单词 | scantlet |
释义 | † scantletn. 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). < n.1502 |
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