stint

  1. Noun.  A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
  2. Verb.  (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  3. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
  5. Noun.  Any of several very small wading birds in the genus ''Calidris''. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
  6. Noun.  (medicine) (misspelling of, stent) .

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