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scantling

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scantling
1. A piece of square-sawn timber 1? in. (47.6 mm) to under 4 in. (101.6 mm) thick, and 2 in. (50.8 mm) to under 4½ in. (114.3 mm) wide.
2. Hardwood timber cut to specified dimensions.
3. Any square-edged piece of hard-wood of nonstandard dimensions.
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The third are gratiosi, favorites; such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign, and harmless to the people.
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Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
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About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform.
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