scantle

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To become less; fail; be or become deficient.
2. To make less; lessen; draw in.
3. To cut up or divide into small pieces; partition.
4. To cut down or cut short; scant.
5. n. A gage by which slates are regulated to their proper length.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To be deficient; to fail.
2. v. obsolete To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.