stint

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The noun stint means a set amount of time in which you do something often work of some sort. "She served a stint in the army, followed by a stint in an office setting, before settling on a career as a lounge singer."

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Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

Noun
an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"

Noun
smallest American sandpiper

Noun
an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

Verb
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

Verb
subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"

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n.
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

n.
A phalarope.

v. t.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

v. t.
To put an end to; to stop.

v. t.
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

v. t.
To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

v. i.
To stop; to cease.

v. t.
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

v. t.
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Stint

Stint , n. (Zo'94l.) (a) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. (b) A phalarope.

Stint

Stint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.] 1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.

She stints them in their meals.

2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] Shak. 3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent. 4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

Stint

Stint, v. i. To stop; to cease. [Archaic]

They can not stint till no thing be left.

And stint thou too, I pray thee.

The damsel stinted in her song.

Stint

Stint, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.] 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.

2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.

Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

To stop; to cease.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

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