Thesaurus / scantling
FEEDBACKsynonyms for scantling
synonyms for scantling
- axle
- balk
- beam
- bolster
- boom
- brace
- cantilever
- column
- crossbar
- crosspiece
- girder
- jamb
- joist
- lintel
- pile
- piling
- pillar
- plank
- pole
- post
- prop
- shaft
- sill
- spar
- stanchion
- stay
- stringer
- strip
- strut
- stud
- timber
- two-by-four
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How to use scantling in a sentence
It lay, tongued and grooved, with the scantling for fixing it, just where the timber merchant's men had deposited it—on the floor.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSMayo saw that it was a long strip of scantling, undoubtedly from the deckload that the Polly had jettisoned when she was tripped.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYMr. Speed boosted Mayo and the young man attached the cloth to the scantling and flung their banner to the breeze.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYI saw the slates at the foot of the weathercock, that they were thinly edged and of light scantling.
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVELSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCHI found a hiding place in a pile of boards or scantling, where I kept concealed during that day.
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF HENRY BIBB, AN AMERICAN SLAVE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELFHENRY BIBBThe scantling of the hatch-cover that secured them was of unusual thickness.
MY DANISH SWEETHEART, VOLUME 3 OF 3WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELLEvery now and then the heavy cars would run off the rails, which were of scantling, worn and frayed by friction.
THE TRAIL OF '98ROBERT W. SERVICEBoys stood ready, however, with short pieces of scantling to place upright beneath the bent; and the men had time to breathe.
THE CHAINBEARERJ. FENIMORE COOPERThe Commandant took the tools from him and easily pried open the lid, for the scantling was light, almost flimsy.
MAJOR VIGOUREUXA. T. QUILLER-COUCHBailey went out to the front of the shanty to look at the lantern he had set up on a scantling.
THE MOCCASIN RANCHHAMLIN GARLANDWORDS RELATED TO SCANTLING
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