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stentor1 Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈstɛntə(r)|
Also 6–7 -ar, 7 -er, -our.
[f. stent v.2 + -or.]
An assessor of taxes, a stentmaster.
1574Reg. 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. 1622in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1844) 425 He wes stenter for the last taxation. 1624Ann. Banff (New Spalding Club) I. 52 Electit stentaris of the taxatioun of the fourt termes payment. 1659A. 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. 1897J. Willock Shetl. Minister 141 (E.D.D.) A quorum of the Heritors, Stentors of the town of Lerwick. 1906J. Patterson Wamphray iv. 85 To appoint ‘stentors’ to lay on a tax to meet repairs where needed. |