Sentence example with the word 'scantling'

scantling

Definition n. an upright in house framing

Last update: April 13, 2016


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Timber is now generally sawn into marketable sizes in the country of its growth, and shipped as scantling timber.   [noun]

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You have not got the scantling for the metal you carry and are always working.   [Please select]

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This consists of a frame not quite shoulder high, a 2x4 scantling making a good cross-piece for the top.   [Please select]

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And before the snow had quite gone the lighter lumber--flooring, scantling, sheeting and shingles--were marshalled to the scene of action.   [Please select]

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Howling with panic terror, she dashed about the small enclosure, clawing frantically at door and scantling.   [Please select]

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The bridge, over which presently I rode, was of army waggons weighted with stone, and on top rails with rude scantling.   [Please select]

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The tailpiece is made of a 2" × 4" scantling (H), 10 inches long, one end of it being nailed to a transverse block (I) 2" × 2" × 4"."   [Please select]

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[Illustration: Boy's Ice Boat] In making the rudder hew down a piece of scantling 1 ft.   [Please select]

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He very nearly did for Major Bustead, smashing at him with a scantling that he ripped from the ship's timbers, sir.   [Please select]

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"Say, Austen," said young Tom, "do you remember the time we covered the old man with shavings at the mills in Avalon, and how he chased us with a two-by-four scantling."   [Please select]

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