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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Noun.

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Verb.

Scrimping bar

a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing.

Knight.

scrimping

scrimping ‎(plural scrimpings)

An amount saved little by little.
- Jack London
  The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.
- 2005, Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors
  In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons.