stint

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive)To stop (an action); cease, desist.

   “We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt”

   “O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]”

   “And stint thou too, I pray thee.”

   “The damsel stinted in her song.”

2. (intransitive, obsolete)To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. (intransitive)To be sparing or mean.

   “The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.”

4. (transitive)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”

   “She stints them in their meals.”

   “Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding.”

5. 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.
6. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

   “The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.”

noun

1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

   “He had a stint in jail.”

   “Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.”

2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

   “God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
6. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).