Scant"ly, adv.
1.
In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
Dryden.
2.
Scarcely; hardly; barely.
Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread
Upon that town.
Fairfax.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
Tennyson.
© Webster 1913.