STINT

stint

(noun) an individual’s prescribed share of work; “her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her”

stretch, stint

(noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something; “there were stretches of boredom”; “he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary”

stint, skimp, scant

(verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; “stint with the allowance”

scrimp, stint, skimp

(verb) subsist on a meager allowance; “scratch and scrimp”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

(archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.

(obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

(transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.

(of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Noun

stint (plural stints)

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Etymology 2

Noun

stint (plural stints)

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Etymology 3

Noun

stint (plural stints)

Misspelling of stent (medical device).

Anagrams

• 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints

Source: Wiktionary

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Stint, n. (Zoöl.) (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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] Etym: [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. Woodward. She stints them in their meals. Law.

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. J. H. Walsh.

Stint, v. i.

Definition: To stop; to cease. [Archaic] They can not stint till no thing be left. Chaucer. And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak. The damsel stinted in her song. Sir W. Scott.

Stint, n. Etym: [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. South.

2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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