Sc. [f. STENT sb.1] An official appointed to fix the amount of tax payable by the inhabitants of a town or parish.
1624. Extracts Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876), 342. The said … counsall haif electit Archibald Andersone [and sixteen others] stent maisteris for stenting of the inhabitants of this burgh.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxiii. It might weigh down one provost’s,… six deacons’, besides stent-masters.
