Definition of "stinted"

Neither Mr. Toots nor Mr. Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, page 133

Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.

1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “A Burial”, in Villette. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 271

Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 150