Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scantly

Scantly , adverb

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