Stinted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              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.
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              She stints them in their meals.       --Law.
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     2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     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.
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     4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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              The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
              while at work.                        --J. H. Walsh.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinted":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, boxed in,
     circumscribed, confined, cramped, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous,
     frugal, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, icebound, impoverished,
     jejune, landlocked, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow,
     niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, qualified, restricted,
     scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, skimp, skimpy, slender,
     slight, slim, small, snowbound, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy,
     straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious,
     watered, watery, windbound