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Scantled vs Scanted - What's the difference?

scantled | scanted |

As verbs the difference between scantled and scanted

is that scantled is (scantle) while scanted is (scant).

As an adjective scanted is

(archaic) diminished; restricted.

scantled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scantle)

    • scantle

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) escanteler, eschanteler.

    Verb

    (scantl)
  • (obsolete) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
  • * J. Webster
    • All their pay / Must your discretion scantle ; keep it back.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (scantl)
  • To be deficient; to fail.
    • (Drayton)
    (Webster 1913)

    scanted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scant)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Diminished; restricted.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight; / Use '''scanted diet, and forbeare your fill […].
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
    • " their generations are neither extinct nor scanted , but are as plentiful as any Creatures on the Land."