stint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /stɪnt/
stint (stints, present participle stinting; past and past participle stinted)
- (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
- We maun have pain that never shall stint.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
- And stint thou too, I pray thee.
- 1818 July 24, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, [...] In Four Volumes (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302 ↗:
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
- She stints them in their meals.
- 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.
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
- Spanish: cesar
stint (plural stints)
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- He had a stint in jail.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
stint (plural stints)
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
- German: Strandläufer
- Russian: песочник
- Spanish: correlimos
stint (plural stints)
- Misspelling of stent medical device.
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