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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scantletnoun

    A small pattern; a small quantity; a little piece.

    Etymology: corrupted, as it seems, from scantling.

    While the world was but thin, the ages of mankind were longer; and as the world grew fuller, so their lives were successively reduced to a shorter scantlet, ’till they came to that time of life which they now have. Matthew Hale.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scantletnoun

    a small pattern; a small quantity

  2. Etymology: [OF. eschantelet corner.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scantlet in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scantlet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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