Sc. [f. STENT v.1] A stake for stretching fishing nets upon in a river. Also Comb. stent-net.

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a. 1712.  Fountainhall, Decis. (1759), I. 293. There were two other points then found irregular in them, viz. their fishing with stent-nets. 2 do, Their [etc.].

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1797.  in Morison, Decis. (1806), XXXIII. 14283. [The Lords … prohibited the defenders] from using stent-nets or hang-nets of any sort.

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1863.  MacQueen’s Rep. (1866), IV. 548. The right to put a stake or stents in the alveus of the river,… and the right to use the stakes when placed there for the purposes of fishing.

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1900.  Ld. Halsbury, in Law Rep., App. Cases, 418. The one end of the stent net being fixed by an anchor in the stream.

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