scantlet

English

Etymology

From Old French eschantelet (“corner”).

Noun

scantlet (plural scantlets)

1. (obsolete) A small pattern or quantity.
   • 1676, [Matthew Hale], “Of Humility, Its Opposite Vices, Benefits, & Means to Acquire It”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 309:

     [T]he beſt of mankind vvould ſoon find that that vvhich was truly good, in the whole courſe of his life, vvere a pitiful, ſlender ſcantlet, and vvould be infinitely out-vveighed by his ſins, omiſſions, and defects; […]

Anagrams

• cantlets

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scantlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)