v. & n.
v.tr. 1 supply (food or aid etc.) in a niggardly amount or grudgingly. 2 (often refl.) supply (a person etc.) in this way.
n. 1 a limitation of supply or effort (without stint). 2 a fixed or allotted amount of work (do one's stint). 3 a small sandpiper, esp. a dunlin. stinter n. stintless adj.
[ OE styntan to blunt, dull, f. Gmc, rel. to STUNT(1) ]