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.
Derivatives:
stinter n. stintless adj.
Etymology: OE styntan to blunt, dull, f. Gmc, rel. to STUNT(1)