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stint

Pronunciation: /stɪnt/

The English word “stint” has 11 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  2. To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  3. To be sparing or mean.
  4. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  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.

noun

  1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
  2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  4. A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
  5. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Etymology

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

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