stint

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an individual's prescribed share of work

   My stint as a lifeguard exhausted my body.

2. 2
   verb

   To stop (an action); cease, desist.

   We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt.

3. 3
   verb

   To be sparing or mean.

   The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

4. 4
   verb

   To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

   I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants.

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

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