stint¹ /stint/

1. To keep short
2. To be niggardly with or towards
3. To allot stingily
4. To spare
5. To serve successfully, get with foal, lamb, etc
6. To limit
7. To check (archaic)
8. To restrain (archaic or dialect)
9. To stop (obsolete)
10. To allot, apportion (archaic)
11. To set as a task or as a day's work (archaic)
12. To restrict (obsolete)

1. To be sparing or mean (with on)
2. To go short (dialect)
3. To cease, stop (obsolete)

1. Cessation of action, motion, etc (obsolete)
2. A limit (obsolete)
3. Restraint, restriction
4. A proportion allotted, fixed amount
5. An allowance
6. A set task
7. A (conventional) day's work

stintˈed adjective

stintˈedly adverb

stintˈedness noun

stintˈer noun

stintˈing noun and adjective

stintˈingly adverb

stintˈless adjective

stintˈy adjective

stint² /stint/

Any small wading bird of the genus Calidris (eg the little stint, C. minuta, and Temminck's stint, C. temminckii) that usu winters in Africa and is a passage migrant in Britain

• unsmote
• unsmotherable
• unsnap
• unsnapped
• unsnapping
• unsnaps
• unsnarl
• unsnarled
• unsnarling
• unsnarls
• unsneck
• unsnecked
• unsnecking
• unsnecks
• unsnuffed
• unsoaped
• unsociabilities
• unsociability
• unsociable
• unsociableness
• unsociablenesses
• unsociably
• unsocial
• unsocialised
• unsocialism