Stint

1. n. A phalarope.
2. n. 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.
3. v. t. To put an end to; to stop.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. To serve successfully; to get with foal; — said of mares.
6. v. i. To stop; to cease.
7. v. t. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.