معنی کلمه :‌ scant

Scantness; scarcity.

Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.