different between scantle vs scantled

English

Old French escanteler, eschanteler.

scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)

(obsolete, transitive) To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
  All their pay / Must your discretion scantle; keep it back.

scant +? -le

scantle (third-person singular simple present scantles, present participle scantling, simple past and past participle scantled)

(intransitive) To be deficient; to fail.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 24 p. 75[1]:
  That in her scantled banks, though wandring long inclos'd,

scantle (plural scantles)

scantled

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