As a case in point, the first fortification thrown together upon the day of first landing upon Jamestown Island was of the skimpiest construction: boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half-moon.
"Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century"
Henry Chandlee Forman
Lois the housemaid, was the smallest and skimpiest and most angular girl I ever beheld.
"Station Amusements"
Lady Barker