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scantling
noun as in beam
noun as in rafter
Example Sentences
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.
Shirking and stealing and giving you a little more lip and a little more lip until some day you have to lay them out with a scantling or something.
Not many people were near me and I paddled around awhile on my piece of scantling and got a little way out from the boat.
Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a comer of one of the galleries.
It lay, tongued and grooved, with the scantling for fixing it, just where the timber merchant's men had deposited it—on the floor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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