stint
stint is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A phalarope.
- transitive verb. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- transitive verb. To put an end to; to stop.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
- intransitive verb. To stop; to cease.
- transitive verb. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- transitive verb. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- noun. an individual's prescribed share of work
"her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
- noun. smallest American sandpiper
- noun. an unbroken period of time during which you do something
"there were stretches of boredom"
"he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
- verb. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
"sting with the allowance"
- verb. subsist on a meager allowance
"scratch and scrimp"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stint:
Common word forms
stints, stinted, stinter, stinting, stintless
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