Definition of "stint"

stint¹

/stɪnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted
1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  Quotations
  We mon haue payne that neuer shall styntWe deamons have pain that shall never cease
  15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, page 6, line 161
  O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  And stint thou too, I pray thee.
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
  The damsel stinted in her song.
  1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  Quotations
  I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants
  1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
  She stints them in their meals.
  1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
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. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
  Quotations
  The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
  1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field
noun
plural stints
1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
  Quotations
  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.
  2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎
  Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
  2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13
2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  Quotations
  God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
  1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727
3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  Quotations
  Jack bovv'd and vvas oblig'd—confeſs'd 'tvvas ſtrange / That ſo retir'd he ſhould not vviſh a change, / But knevv no medium betvveen guzzling beer, / And his old stint—three thouſand pounds a year.
  1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], page 288

stint²

/stɪnt/

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

stint³

/stɪnt/

noun
plural stints
1. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

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