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Stint

noun

An unbroken period of time during which you do something. Synonym: stretch. "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

Smallest American sandpiper. Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper.

An individual's prescribed share of work.

verb

(past & past part. stinted; pres. part. stinting)

Subsist on a meager allowance. Synonyms: scrimp, skimp.

Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. Synonyms: scant, skimp.

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"Stint" Quotes from Famous Books

... considered ways and means. The thing she had longed for was within her grasp. All she had ever asked for herself was flung to her without stint. ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... into the lap of Venice, and a spirit of reckless profusion took possession of her citizens. The money, hastily and easily amassed, went as rapidly as it came. It went chiefly for dress, in which the Venetian still indulges very often to the stint of his stomach; and the ladies of that bright-colored, showy day bore fortunes on their delicate persons in the shape of costly vestments of scarlet, black, green, white, maroon, or violet, covered with gems, glittering with silver buttons, and ringing with silver bells. The fine gentlemen ...

— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells

... Scarcely he hears from the rock-rimmed heights to the wild ravines below, Near and far-off, the limitless wings of the tempest hurl and go In roaring gusts that plunge through the cracking forest, and lull, and lift, All day without stint and all night long with the sweep of the hissing drift. But winter shall pass ere long with its hills of snow and its fettered dreams, And the forest shall glimmer with living gold, and chime with the gushing of streams; Millions of little points of plants shall prick ...

— Alcyone • Archibald Lampman

... raising calves is of much importance. It controls the value and beauty of grown cattle. Stint the growth of a calf, and when he is old he will not recover from it. Much attention has been paid to the breed of cattle, and some are very highly recommended. It is true that the breed of stock has much to do ...

— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden

... at her a little curiously; 'but you have not served my apprenticeship. You do not know how hard it is for a pleasure-loving nature to be deprived of so many sources of enjoyment—to have to stint one's taste for pretty things—to be perpetually saying "no" ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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