Stint

Noun

 * 1) A period of time spent doing or being something.  A spell.
 * He had a stint in jail.

Verb

 * 1)  To stop (an action); cease, desist.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
 * O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife [...].
 * 1)  To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
 * 2) * Late C14, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
 * Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
 * 1)  To be sparing or mean.
 * The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

Noun

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

Adverbs for Stint
parsimoniously; fanatically; meanly; niggardly; selfishly; scandalously; unwontedly.

Thesaurus
allotment, amount, anchor watch, apportionment, assignment, begrudge, bit, bound, bout, box, box in, box up, busywork, caliber, chare, charge, check, chore, circumscribe, circumscription, commission, compass, condition, confine, confinement, constraint, contain, control, copyright, cramp, cramping, curb, cut, cut corners, day shift, degree, devoir, discipline, dogwatch, draw the line, duty, economize, errand, exercise, extent, famish, fish to fry, full time, go, grade, graveyard shift, grudge, half time, hedge about, height, hem, hem in, homework, interval, job, job of work, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, labor, leap, level, limit, limitation, live upon nothing, lobster trick, localize, make-work, mark, matters in hand, measure, mission, moderate, narrow, night shift, notch, nuance, obligation, odd job, overtime, part time, participation, pas, patent, peg, period, piece of work, pinch, pinch pennies, pitch, plane, plateau, point, project, proportion, qualification, qualify, quantity, quota, range, ratio, reach, register, relay, remove, reservation, responsibility, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, round, routine, rung, scale, scamp, scant, scope, scrape, screw, scrimp, service, shade, shadow, share, shift, short, skimp, space, spare, specialize, split schedule, split shift, stair, standard, starve, step, straiten, stretch, stricture, sunrise watch, swing shift, task, term, things to do, tighten, time, tour, tour of duty, tread, trick, turn, turn of work, watch, withhold, work, work shift

Etymology 1
Old English styntan ‘make blunt’, probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta.

Etymology 2
Origin unknown.

Verb

 * Polish: skąpić


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Noun

 * Romanian:


 * Spanish: correlimos

Anagrams

 * it'sn't
 * tints
 * 'tisn't