scants

Noun

scant (plural scants)

1. A small piece or quantity.
   • A blonde appeared from the officers' room, wearing a scant of material that passed for issued undergarments.2020, Nathaniel DeZago, Cries of Battle: Selstra
2. (uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
   • As soon as the corpse was placed on the pile, and some prayers muttered by the attendant Bramin, fire was set to it at one of the corners, and the wood being dry, and in great quantity, it soon blazed up and consumed the body to ashes, without any noisome smell, such as however does not...1757, John-Henry Grose, A voyage to the East-Indies, with observations on various parts there, page 360
3. A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
4. A sheet of stone.
5. (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

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