STINT

Stint

A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage - often separated in Erolia - which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.

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stint

Noun

  1. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
    He had a stint in jail.
  2. limit; bound; restraint; extent
  3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Noun (etymology 3)

Verb

  1. To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  2. To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  3. To be sparing or mean.
    The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
  4. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  5. 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.
  6. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.


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