The edge of the box and the scantling were rosined, and it was worked by two men sawing up and down.
The "great trombone" was a dry goods box, turned bottom-side up, and was played upon with a scantling eight or ten feet long.
Your straightforward way To your legitimate end,--I think it passed Over a scantling of heads brained, hearts broke, Lives trodden into dust!
The plate should be laid down on the sill, and marked with a pencil for every scantling to correspond with the sill markings.
As it will be necessary in our job to use two or more lengths of 2" × 4" scantling for the plate, it will be necessary to join them together.
If you after the same manner would take one great draught, or two little ones, whilst you have your gown about you, I truly find no kind of inconveniency in it, provided you send up to God for all some small scantling of thanks.
Randy had got Jolly to help him tear loose a scantling from a step protection.
The water was over six feet deep and the scantling was not much help.
As he spoke he thrust a long scantling down into the cistern.
As Bob spoke, Markham came climbing up thescantling out of the cistern.
The hull of the vessel built of wood, the general arrangement of scantling and materials being the same as in vessels of similar class in Her Majesty's navy.
Its time of flowers, and even of fruits, was over; but a scantling of apples enriched the trees.
Illustration: Boy's Ice Boat] In making the rudder hew down a piece of scantling 1 ft.
To make the frame, several lengths of scantling 3 in.
You women perceive not, animals without understanding that you are, how much ill lieth hid under this scantling of fair seeming.
This can be done by laying a piece of scantling across the top of the valve, fastening each end to the hand rail on opposite sides of the engine in case of broken stud.
If in the fire-box end, a piece of scantling or post can be sharpened and driven into the flue from the fire-box door; it will then burn off up to where the water from the bursted flue keeps it wet.
It was hard, cold work, but they got it done--the mattress stuffed into the hole and the scantling shoring it up.
Doc took all the sound ones and went down into the forward compartment with a mattress and some scantling he found in the hold.
For the pen I took four pieces of scantling and a good supply of laths.
I used the pieces of scantling for the corner-posts and nailed the laths on the sides, top, and one end.
The plundered boards andscantling had to be carried by the men half a mile.
In the walls of our shack the boards ran up and down with a 2 × 4 scantling midway between floor and ceiling running all the way around the room.
The top of the shapeless bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as wicket and air-hole when the door was closed.
On the inside of the door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the number 50, so that one hesitated.
We find, as we approach the centre of the bridge, that the strains on the braces become less, and consequently their scantling should be reduced, but in ordinary practice this is seldom done.
The strain to which this timber is subjected is caused by the moving load on one panel only--and requires onlyscantling of the size of the middle braces.
Three of us again seized the animal and lifted, while the old darky inserted the scantling as a lever.
The two boys were first on the field, and, without waiting for the scantling which old Sandy had grasped, seized the creature on the side, between the flippers, and lifted it.
It was a piece of scantling about twenty feet long, and not very thick; and to this he saw that he could fasten the pole that he had made up in the woods.
Then he drew up the bit of scantling, and bringing the coil of rope, he cut a piece off, and proceeded to fasten to the scantling the pole which he had procured in the woods.
Another long piece of scantling was then placed so as to pass from one to the other of the two crossed sticks, so that it rested upon them.
Certainly the scantling did not improve his temper, and Pitkin made life a burden to old Gabe and the two black stable hands.
One retort led to another, and when Mulligan ran out of retorts he responded with a piece of 2 by 4 scantling which he had been saving for just such an emergency, and Pitkin lost interest in the conversation.
Near the well, two pieces of two by four scantling marked the grave of some traveler who had preceded us and who had run short of water before reaching the Holes.
The three gallons of water were divided among man and beast, and then Baker started back to Coyote Holes to get the two pieces of scantling with which to mend our broken wagon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scantling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
