Stint

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Old English styntan ("make blunt"), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta.

Full definition of stint

Noun

1. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.He had a stint in jail.
• 2012, May 13, Andrew Benson, Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
2. limit; bound; restraint; extent
• SouthGod has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
• CowperHis old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

Verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong
  At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife ...
• ShakespeareAnd stint thou too, I pray thee.
• Sir Walter ScottThe damsel stinted in her song.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
• Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, :Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus,
  And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
4. (intransitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
• WoodwardI shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
• LawShe stints them in their meals.
5. 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.
6. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
• J. H. WalshThe majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

Origin unknown.

Noun

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

Noun

1. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

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