Both Uses of
scanty
in
The Two Towers
- A queer stifling feeling came over them, as if the air were too thin or too scanty for breathing.†
Chpt 3.4
- At the entrance to the court he turned to the right, stepped over the stream, and strode away southwards along the feet of great tumbled slopes where trees were scanty.†
Chpt 3.4 *
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn