▪ the size to which a piece of timber or stone is measured and cut.
2. a set of standard dimensions for parts of a structure, especially in shipbuilding.
3. a specimen, sample, or small amount of something.archaic
Word Originearly 16th century (denoting prescribed size, or a set of standard dimensions): alteration of obsolete scantillon (from Old French escantillon ‘sample’), by association with the suffix -ling.