scantle
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Old French escanteler, eschanteler.
Verb edit
scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
- All their pay / Must your discretion scantle; keep it back.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)
- (intransitive) To be deficient; to fail.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 24 p. 75:
- That in her scantled banks, though wandring long inclos'd,
Noun edit
scantle (plural scantles)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scantle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)