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[stint] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used without object)

1.	to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.

2.	Archaic. to cease action; desist.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.

4.	Archaic. to bring to an end; check.

–noun

5.	a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.

6.	an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one's daily stint.

7.	limitation or restriction, esp. as to amount: to give without stint.

8.	a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one's stint.

9.	Obsolete. a pause; halt.

[Origin: 1150–1200; (v.) ME stinten, OE styntan to make blunt, dull; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; c. ON stytta to shorten; cf. stunt¹

]

—Related forms

stint·ed·ly, adverb

stint·ed·ness, noun

stinter, noun

stint·ing·ly, adverb

stintless, adjective

—Synonyms 3. confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion.

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[stint] Pronunciation Key,

–noun

any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME stynte < ?

]

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stint¹   (stĭnt) Pronunciation Key
v.   stint·ed, stint·ing, stints

v.   tr.

To restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with.
Archaic To cause to stop.

v. intr.

To subsist on a meager allowance; be frugal.
Archaic To stop or desist.

A length of time spent in a particular way: a two-year stint in the military.
A fixed amount or share of work allotted. See Synonyms at task.
A limitation or restriction: working without stint.

[Middle English stinten, to cease, from Old English styntan, to blunt.]

stint'er n., stint'ing·ly adv.

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stint² (stĭnt) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions.

[Middle English stint, from Old English.]

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stint (v.)

"to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal," O.E. styntan "to blunt, make dull," from P.Gmc. *stuntijanan (cf. O.N. stuttr "short, scant," M.H.G. stunz "blunt, short," Ger. stutzen "to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate"), from PIE base *(s)teu- "to beat, strike, push, thrust" (see steep (adj.)). The noun is attested from c.1300.

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stint
noun
1.	an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch]
2.	smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper]
3.	an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
verb
1.	subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp]
2.	supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

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Stunt\, n. [Cf. Stint a task.] A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. [Colloq.]

An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity. --The Bookman.

He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming. --L. Hutton.

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San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.] (Zo["o]l.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

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Stint

Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer.

Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. --Spenser.

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Stint

Stint\, n. (Zo["o]l.) (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.

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