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Webster 1913 Edition
Stint
Stint
,Noun.
(Zool.)
(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
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stinted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stinting
.] 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
,Verb.
I.
To stop; to cease.
[Archaic]
They can not
stint
till no thing be left. Chaucer.
And
stint
thou too, I pray thee. Shakespeare
The damsel
stinted
in her song. Sir W. Scott.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Stint
STINT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. Nature wisely stints our appetite.
2.
To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.STINT
,Noun.
STINT
,Noun.
1.
Limit; bound; restraint.2.
Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint.Our stint of woe is common.
Definition 2024
stint
stint
English
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
- He had a stint in jail.
- limit; bound; restraint; extent
- South
- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- South
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- Cowper
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
- Cowper
Translations
a period of time spent doing or being something
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.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
- We maun have pain that never shall stint.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- And stint thou too, I pray thee.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott
- The damsel stinted in her song.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- (intransitive) 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.
- To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
- (Can we date this quote?) J. H. Walsh
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
- (Can we date this quote?) J. H. Walsh
Translations
to be sparing or mean
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Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
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.
Translations
wading bird of the genus Calidris
Etymology 3
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- Misspelling of stent (medical device).