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Definition of Scanter
1. scant [adj] - See also: scant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scanter
Literary usage of Scanter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"Franca for England, with a faire leading winde for three or foure dayes together,
and then it grew scanter and scanter, and at last starke nought and flat ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"Franca for England, with a faire leading winde for three or foure dayes together,
and then it grew scanter and scanter, and at last starke nought and flat ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"Serenaders, Late relenting, Sweet invaders, Left lamenting— scanter grow and
daily scanter, ' Withered leaves strew wintry brooks ! ..."
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