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
The "great trombone" was a dry goods box, turned bottom-side up, and was played upon with a scantling eight or ten feet long.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
This consists of a frame not quite shoulder high, a 2x4 scantling making a good cross-piece for the top.
From Profitable Squab Breeding by Carl Dare
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