Both Uses of
scanty
in
The Return of the King
- From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- There sat Theoden and Eomer, and before them on the ground sat a strange squat shape of a man, gnarled as an old stone, and the hairs of his scanty beard straggled on his lumpy chin like dry moss.†
Chpt 5.5
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn