1) Short; scanty.--Webster.
2) A pinching miser; a niggard; a close-fisted person.--Webster.
TO SCRIMP
3) To contract; to shorten; to make too small or short; to limit or straiten; as, 'to scrimp the pattern of a coat.' This, as well as the previous words, are in common use in New England.--Webster. Used in the north of England.--Brockett.