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Stint   /stɪnt/   Listen
Stint

noun
1.
An unbroken period of time during which you do something.  Synonym: stretch.  "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
2.
Smallest American sandpiper.  Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper.
3.
An individual's prescribed share of work.
verb
(past & past part. stinted; pres. part. stinting)
1.
Subsist on a meager allowance.  Synonyms: scrimp, skimp.
2.
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities.  Synonyms: scant, skimp.



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"Stint" Quotes from Famous Books



... congratulations without stint; but Sumner, grandest of all, approaching us said in a deep voice, really full of emotion: 'I have been in this place, ladies, for twenty years; I have followed or led in every movement toward liberty and enfranchisement; but this meeting exceeds in ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... hours of life; they no longer possess faults, littlenesses, oddities; they can no longer fall away, or deceive themselves, or give us pain. They care for nothing now but to smile upon us, to encompass us with love, to bring us a happiness drawn without stint from a past which they ...
— The Wrack of the Storm • Maurice Maeterlinck

... disputants felt for hearing themselves talk. Jacob had long since claimed for himself the right to leave the room when politics and religion came under discussion. As an only son, he had some privileges accorded him, and this was one he used without stint. ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... started soon after daybreak. On his back he carried a wallet, in which was a new suit of clothes suitable for one of the rank of a gentleman, which his mother had with great stint and difficulty procured for him. He strode briskly along, proud of the possession of a sword for the first time. It was in itself a badge of manhood, for at that time all ...
— In Freedom's Cause • G. A. Henty

... what the Water of Life was, and where it was, and how to attain it; much more, that that God should stoop to become incarnate, and suffer and die on the cross, that He might purchase the Water of Life, not for a favoured few, but for all mankind; that He should offer it to all, without condition, stint, or drawback;—this, this, never ...
— The Water of Life and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley


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