Mining. Also stenton. [Perh. the same word as next vbl. sb.; but the etymological notion is obscure.] (See quot. 1860.)
1812. J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1857), I. 95. The single black lines in the walls and stentings represent stoppings.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 987. The pillars or walls of coal, marked e, are called stenting walls.
1860. Eng. & For. Mining Gloss., Newcastle terms (ed. 2), Stenton, a passage between two winning headways. Stenton-wall, the pillar of coal between two winning headways.
