Scantling vs. Timber — What's the Difference?

Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.

Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.

A very small amount; a modicum.

Wood used as a building material; lumber.

A small timber used in construction.

A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.

The dimensions of a building material, especially the width and thickness of a timber.

(Nautical) A rib in a ship's frame.

Often scantings(Nautical) The dimensions of the structural parts of a vessel.

A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity

The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.

To support or frame with timbers

(archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.

Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.

A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

(uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

(obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.

(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

(obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Material for any structure.

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

A fragment; a bit; a little piece.

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

(transitive) To fit with timbers.

A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.

To construct, frame, build.

The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.

To light or land on a tree.

A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

(obsolete) To make a nest.

A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

An upright in house framing

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

The crest on a coat of arms.

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Fig.: Material for any structure.

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

Woods or forest; wooden land.

A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

To surmount as a timber does.

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.

To light on a tree.

To make a nest.

The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

A beam made of wood

A post made of wood

Land that is covered with trees and shrubs

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);