stint

noun

1. Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).

verb

Etymology: From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

1. To stop (an action); cease, desist.

   “We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt”

   “O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]”

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.

   “I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants”

   “She stints them in their meals.”

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.

   “The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.”