stint🔊

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

(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

To be sparing or mean. +

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

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.

(of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

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

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.