scantling
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Eighty-two shipments of teak consisting mostly of board and scantling used for shipbuilding, outdoor decking and furniture were exported last year, according to the watchdog group, whose findings were gleaned from the trade database Panjiva.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022
Last week, after six years' inspection of every scantling and joist of MOP's overbalanced capital structure, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its plan of reorganization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a comer of one of the galleries.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
There it stopped, supported as before, by short pieces of scantling.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
A saw "pit" is a scantling of poles eight feet high, on which the logs are placed to be sawn.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)
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