stint
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1. stint - Noun
2. stint - Verb
Meaning
A phalarope.
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.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
To put an end to; to stop.
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.
To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
To stop; to cease.
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We ought not to stint anything that is necessary in order to crush the rebellion.
What we stint in materials we squander in lives... What you spare in money you spill in blood.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.