stint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with.
2. v. Archaic To cause to stop.
3. v. To subsist on a meager allowance; be frugal.
4. v. Archaic To stop or desist.
5. n. A length of time spent in a particular way: a two-year stint in the military.
6. n. A fixed amount or share of work allotted. See Synonyms at task.
7. n. A limitation or restriction: working without stint.
8. n. Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cause to cease; put an end to; stay; stop.
2. To bring to a stand; stay; put a stop to.
3. To forbear; cease.
4. To limit; restrain; restrict; hence, to limit or confine to a scanty allowance: as, to stint one's self in food; to stint service or help.
5. To assign a definite task to; prescribe a specified amount of labor for: as, to stint a pupil or a servant. See stint, n., 2.
6. To cover or serve (a mare) successfully; get with foal. See the quotation under stinted, 2.
7. To cease; desist; stay; stop; hold.
8. To be saving or careful in expenditure.
9. n. Limit; bound; limitation; restriction; restraint: as, common without stint (that is, without limitation or restriction as to the extent of the pasturage, the number of cattle to be pastured, or the period of the year).
10. n. Fixed amount or quantity; allowance; prescribed or allotted task or performance: as, a certain stint of work.
11. n. One of several small species of sandpiper, especially of the genus Actodromas; a sandpeep. The common stint is the dunlin, purre, or ox-bird, Pelidna alpina. (See dunlin.) This is an early, if not the first, application of the name, as by Ray, who called this bird also oxeye and least snipe. The little stint is Actodromas minuta; the least stint is A. minutilla, which abounds in North America, and is also known as Wilson's sandpiper. Temminck's stint is A. temmincki; the red-necked, A. ruficollis. There are several others of the same genus. The broad-billed sandpiper, Limicola platyrhyncha, is a kind of stint, and the spoon-billed, Eurynorhynchus pygmæus, is another. Extension of the name to the sanderling and to phalaropes is unusual.

Wiktionary

1. n. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
2. n. limit; bound; restraint; extent
3. n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
4. v. archaic, intransitive To stop (an action); cease, desist.
5. v. obsolete, intransitive To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
6. v. intransitive To be sparing or mean.
7. n. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
8. n. common misspelling of stent (medical device).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. A phalarope.
3. v. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
4. v. obsolete To put an end to; to stop.
5. v. 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.
6. v. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
7. v. Archaic To stop; to cease.
8. n. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
9. n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an unbroken period of time during which you do something
2. v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
3. n. smallest American sandpiper
4. n. an individual's prescribed share of work
5. v. subsist on a meager allowance