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Stinted   Listen
verb
Stint  v. t.  (past & past part. stinted; pres. part. stinting)  
1.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. "I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds." "She stints them in their meals."
2.
To put an end to; to stop. (Obs.)
3.
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.
4.
To serve successfully; to get with foal; said of mares. "The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work."



Stint  v. i.  To stop; to cease. (Archaic) "They can not stint till no thing be left." "And stint thou too, I pray thee." "The damsel stinted in her song."






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