scantling vs stringpiece

scantling

noun
  • Timber in the form of small beams and pieces. 

  • A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square. 

  • The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft. 

adj
  • Not plentiful; small; scanty. 

stringpiece

noun
  • A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; especially one of the longitudinal pieces supporting a flight or run of stairs. 

How often have the words scantling and stringpiece occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )