stint

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: stretchleast sandpiperErolia minutillascrimpskimpscant

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. an unbroken period of time during which you do something“there were stretches of boredom”“he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary”Synonyms: stretch
  2. smallest American sandpiperSynonyms: least sandpiperErolia minutilla
  3. an individual's prescribed share of work“her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her”

Verb (2)

  1. subsist on a meager allowance“scratch and scrimp”Synonyms: scrimpskimp
  2. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities“sting with the allowance”Synonyms: skimpscant
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.] (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Stint \Stint\, v. i. To stop; to cease. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

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]
Stint \Stint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.]

1.To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. [1913 Webster]

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.— Woodward.[1913 Webster]
She stints them in their meals.— Law.[1913 Webster]

2.To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3.To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent. [1913 Webster]

4.To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares. [1913 Webster]

The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.— J. H. Walsh.[1913 Webster]
Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]

1.Limit; bound; restraint; extent. [1913 Webster]

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.— South.[1913 Webster]

2.Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. [1913 Webster]

His old stint— three thousand pounds a year. --Cowper.[1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
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