Sc. [f. STANCE sb.2] trans. To place or station; to pen (cattle) for sale.
17[?]. Sheriff-Muir, in Ritson’s Sc. Songs (1794), II. 66. He ne’er advanc’d From the place he was stanc’d.
1887. Scott. Leader, 19 Oct., 4. Three thousand head of cattle of all breeds were stanced at Dalkeith yesterday.
a. 1893. in R. Ford, Harp Perthsh., 371. The fiddler loon … Was cannily stanced in his seat on a hill.
