▪ I. stenting, n. Mining.
(ˈstɛntɪŋ)
Also stenton.
[Perh. the same word as next vbl. n.; 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. |
▪ II. stenting, vbl. n. Sc.
(ˈstɛntɪŋ)
[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.]. |