stint.html - v. & n.
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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)]

stint.html - The name (more fully Stinger missile) of a lightweight, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile developed in the US and incorporating an infrared homing device. Etymology: Presumably a figurative use of stinger in the sense 'something that stings or smarts'. History and Usage: The Stinger missile system was developed by General Dynamics and other contractors in the US in the second half of the seventies. Being light in weight and shoulder-launched, it proved an ideal form of anti-aircraft missile for guerrilla warfare. The use of Stingers by rebels against Soviet and Afghan government aircraft in Afghanistan brought them into the news in the second half of the eighties. The Pentagon told Congress Wednesday it intends to sell Saudi Arabia 400 ground-to-air Stinger missile systems along with 1,200 missiles. Christian Science Monitor 2 Mar . 1984, p.
2 The transfer of the Stingers to the counter-revolutionary bands, which use these missiles to down civilian aircraft , is simply immoral and totally unjustifiable. Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika (English translation, 1987), p. 177

stint.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sharp often poisonous wounding organ of an insect, snake, nettle, etc.
2 a the act of inflicting a wound with this. b the wound itself or the pain caused by it.
3 a wounding or painful quality or effect (the sting of hunger; stings of remorse).
4 pungency, sharpness, vigour (a sting in the voice).
5 sl. a swindle or robbery.

--v.

(past and past part. stung)
1 a tr. wound or pierce with a sting. b intr. be able to sting; have a sting.
2 intr. & tr. feel or cause to feel a tingling physical or sharp mental pain.
3 tr. (foll. by into) incite by a strong or painful mental effect (was stung into replying).
4 tr. sl. swindle or charge exorbitantly.

stinging-nettle a nettle, Urtica dioica, having stinging hairs. sting in the tail unexpected pain or difficulty at the end.

stingingly adv. stingless adj. stinglike adj. [OE sting (n.), stingan (v.), f. Gmc]

stint.html - n.
US & Austral. = STINGRAY.

stint.html - n.
1 a stinging insect, snake, nettle, etc.
2 a sharp painful blow.

stint.html - n.
any of various broad flat-fish esp. of the family Dasyatidae, having a long poisonous serrated spine at the base of its tail.