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
But the limits of this work will only admit of a mere scantling of what might be written on the subject.
From A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion by Benjamin Offen
How long, think you, would a sepia-drawing stand without defacement in the midst of our civilisation were it put on the bottom panel of a door, or the scantling of a kitchen passage?
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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