Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stint \Stint\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the
       sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little
       stint of India ({Tringa minuta}), etc. Called also
       {pume}.
   (b) A phalarope.

Stint \Stint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stinted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stinting}.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to
   cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull,
   stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial,
   Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. {Stent}, {Stunt}.]
   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.                  --Woodward.

            She stints them in their meals.       --Law.

   2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.

   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.                        --J. H. Walsh.

Stint \Stint\, v. i.
   To stop; to cease. [Archaic]

         They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer.

         And stint thou too, I pray thee.         --Shak.

         The damsel stinted in her song.          --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See {Stint}, v. t.]
   1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

            God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint
            of his power.                         --South.

   2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

            His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
                                                  --Cowper.

Source : WordNet®

stint
     n 1: an unbroken period of time during which you do something;
          "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in
          the federal penitentiary" [syn: {stretch}]
     2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: {least sandpiper}, {Erolia
        minutilla}]
     3: an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a
        lifeguard exhausted her"
     v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: {scrimp},
           {skimp}]
     2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with
        the allowance" [syn: {skimp}, {scant}]