scantle

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French escanteler, eschanteler.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
   • J. Webster

     All their pay / Must your discretion scantle; keep it back.

Etymology 2

scant +‎ -le

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be deficient; to fail.
   • Michael Drayton

     That in her scantled banks, though wand'ring long inclos'd,

Noun

scantle (plural scantles)

1. A gauge for measuring slates.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• Stancel, cantels, cantles, centals, lancets