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 it must be told that in Eliphalet there lurks a scantling of ambition to climb higher on the ladder than our party is yet willing to afford to one of his degree.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
The branches of the sagebrush were then cut from the stalk and nailed with painstaking care to the smooth surface of one side of the two by six inch scantling.
From The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin by Elliott Smith
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