The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stint \Stint\, n. (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.
       [1913 Webster]