To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. Nature wisely stints our appetite.

To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

A small bird, the Tringa cinctus.

Limit; bound; restraint.

Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint. Our stint of woe is common.