Etymology

scantling

scant·ling
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Today it means: The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft. Full definition →

Old French escantillon
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromescantillon“sample pattern”
  2. English todayscantling

Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.