Sc. Obs. exc. Hist. Also 6–7 -ar, 7 -er, -our. [f. STENT v.2 + -OR.] An assessor of taxes, a STENTMASTER.

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1574.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 413. The Provest, Baillies and Counsale … hes nominat certaine personis burgessis of the said burgh, Stentaris, be quhome thay have causit taxt and stent the inhabitantis thairof.

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1622.  in A. Maxwell’s Hist. Old Dundee (1884), 425. He wes stenter for the last taxation.

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1624.  Ann. Banff (New Spalding Club), I. 52. Electit stentaris of the taxatioun of the fourt termes payment.

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1659.  A. Hay, Diary (S.H.S.), 127. I went to Skirling … to stent the parish for a schoole, but … I could not get a competent number of men to be stentours.

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1897.  J. Willock, Shetl. Minister, 141 (E.D.D.). A quorum of the Heritors, Stentors of the town of Lerwick.

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1906.  J. Paterson, Wamphray, iv. 85. To appoint ‘stentors’ to lay on a tax to meet repairs where needed.

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