Sekirov Dictionary

stint

/stɪnt/

verb 6
noun 5
forms 4

verb6

•
To be sparing or mean.
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
•
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- 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
•
To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. — 1861
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.
•
(no longer used) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
- We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt — 1897
(no longer used) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

noun5

•
A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- He had a stint in jail.
•
A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- 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
•
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- 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
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
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Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. — 1692

forms

stinted · stinting · stinteth · stints

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