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.