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Definition of Stint

1. Noun. An unbroken period of time during which you do something. "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

2. Verb. Subsist on a meager allowance. "Scratch and scrimp"

3. Noun. Smallest American sandpiper.

4. Verb. Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. "Sting with the allowance"

5. Noun. An individual's prescribed share of work. "Her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"

Definition of Stint

1. 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.

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

3. v. i. To stop; to cease.

4. n. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Definition of Stint

1. Noun. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell. ¹

2. Verb. (archaic intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject). ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean. ¹

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

6. Noun. (medicine) (misspelling of stent) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stint

1. to limit [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: limit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stint

stinkless stinko stinkpot stinkpots stinks stinks on ice stinkstone stinkstones stinkt stinkweed

stinkweeds stinkwood stinkwoods stinky stinky squid stint (current term) stintance stinted stintedness stinter

stinters stintier stintiest stinting stintings stintless stints stinty stip stipa

Literary usage of Stint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Construction Cost Keeping and Management: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1922)
"The "stint" System.—Having decided the number of units of output that may be accomplished in a day or in a week, a "stint" or task may be assigned to an ..."

2. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"MY duty in most humble wise remembered: I was bold to acquaint your honour with a purpose that our company had for a stint of bread, which we have now put ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... a little with his heed, And stint a while, and afterward he woke, And soberly on her he threw his ioke, And said, *' I am, albeit to you no joy, ..."

4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"Common of Pasture " without stint," or " Sans Nombre," does not mean that you are entitled to ... stint ..."

5. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"The river has done its stint, and appears not to flow, but lie at its length reflecting the light, and the haze over the woods is like the inaudible panting ..."

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