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Stint v. t. (past & past part. stinted; pres. part. stinting)

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."

To put an end to; to stop. (Obs.)

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.

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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"Stinting" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrongs nobody, while the other wrongs you and me and all the children, who want every penny I have to spend; but Reginald is much too fine to think of that. He thinks it quite natural that I should go on toiling and stinting myself." ...

— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... Saturday afternoon at two he would draw a pay envelope containing twelve dollars. Meantime he must eat. Well, if he stinted himself closely a dollar might be stretched to bridge the gap until Saturday. The major had learned a good deal about the noble art of stinting these ...

— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb

... around while she read, delighted to see how cozy he had made his little girl,—how pure the pearl-stained walls were, how white the matting. He never went down to Wheeling with the crops without bringing something back for the room, stinting himself to do it. Her brother had had the habit, too, since he was a boy, of bringing everything pretty or pleasant he found to his sister; he had a fancy that he was making her life bigger and more heartsome by it, and would have ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... He brought brandy and water from the sideboard with no stinting hand, and within ten minutes Mr. Carewe was in his accustomed seat, competent to finish his breakfast. In solitude, however, he sat, and ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... bunk and up to the black line, which washed his dishes cleanest, and kept his shelf in the cupboard the tidiest. Before the fireplace in an evening Cash would put on wood, and when next it was needed, Bud would get up and put on wood. Neither would stoop to stinting or to shirking, neither would give the other an inch of ground for complaint. It was not enlivening to live together that way, but it worked well toward keeping the ...

— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

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