Sc. [f. STENT v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb; extending, etc.
1507. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., III. 397. Item, to Robert Stanelee, broudstair, for … pak threid for stenting, ix s. x d.
1533. Bellenden, Livy (S.T.S.), I. 40. But ony stenting of palȝouns in the campis [L. non castris positis].
† 2. concr. Stiffening for a doublet. Obs.
1488. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 164. Item, for flotin and stentin to thir saim doublettis xxvj s. viij d.
1647. Caldwell Papers (Maitland Club), I. 99. For vi. quarters of stenting at 10 ss ye elne.
1658. Rec. Elgin (New Spalding Club), I. 305. Tailyors … shall neither buy nor sell any merchandice except so much plaiding,… stenting, bleached or unbleached, threed [etc.].
3. attrib. and Comb.
1551. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., X. 17. Item, for buttonis and stenting canves to the samyn [doublett], viij s.
1868. Perthsh. Jrnl., 18 June. Muir Commissioners…. The meeting … agreed to allow Mr. Herdman to remove the wire-fence on the outside of the hedge to the inside of it, with an additional wire and stenting posts.
1886. J. Barrowman, Sc. Mining Terms, 64. Stenting-bogie, a wheeled waggon or bogie carrying a pulley round which the haulage rope is passed, tension of the haulage rope being secured by [etc.].
