# stint
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɪnt/
* Rhymes: -ɪnt
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Verb

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)
* (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stop
** 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, line 161:We mon haue payne that neuer shall styntWe deamons have pain that shall never cease
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:And stint thou too, I pray thee.
** 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:The damsel stinted in her song.
* (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
* (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
    Synonym: skimp
    The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
* (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
** 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies: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
** 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life:She stints them in their meals.
* To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
* (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
** 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field:The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

##### Derived terms

* unstinting

##### Translations
#### Noun

stint (plural stints)
* A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
    He had a stint in jail.
** 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎:That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
** 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
* Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
* Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
** 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 288:Jack bovv'd and vvas oblig'd—confeſs'd 'tvvas ſtrange / That ſo retir'd he ſhould not vviſh a change, / But knevv no medium betvveen guzzling beer, / And his old stint—three thouſand pounds a year.
* (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

#### Noun

stint (plural stints)
* Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

##### Derived terms

* little stint
* long-toed stint
* red-necked stint
* Temminck's stint

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

stint
* Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).

### Anagrams

* 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints

## Swedish
### Adjective

stint
* indefinite neuter singular of stinn

### Adverb

stint (not comparable)
* without moving one's gaze, intensely
    se någon stint i ögonenlook someone right in the eye

### References

* stint in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* stint in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* stint in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* snitt