stint

Meanings

Verb

• To stop (an action); cease, desist.
• 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.
• To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Noun

• 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.
• Misspelling of stent .

Origin

• From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan and *stintan (attested in āstintan), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną, probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta.
• Origin Unknown.