sextent

An obsolete spelling of sexton. sextennial (seks-ten'i-al), a. [ In the seventh place, the legislatures of the several states are balanced against the Senate by sextennial elections. J. Adams , To J. Taylor (Works, VI. 468). sexter (seks'ter), n. [Also sextar , sester; sexter , sexster , sester, sextier , sestier, septier, setier , a measure (of grain, land, wine, etc.) of varying value, sextarius , a measure: see sextary1 , sextarius .] A unit of capacity, apparently a small variety of the French setier . Weede hem wel, let noo weede in hem stande; V sexter shall suffice an acre lande. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 106. In the time of Edward the Confe or the sheriff wick of Warwick, with the borough and royal manors, rendered £65, and "thirty-six sextars of honey, or £24 68. instead of honey (pro omnibus quæ ad mel per tine bant)... Now it renders twenty-four sextars of honey of the larger measure." Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 380.