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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.] (Zo["o]l.) A small gray and brown sandpiper ({Calidris arenaria}) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also {curwillet}, {sand lark}, {stint}, and {ruddy plover}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: scratch and scrimp [syn: {scrimp}, {skimp}] 2: supply sparingly, with a meager allowance [syn: {skimp}, {scant}]
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