stints

1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

   He had a stint in jail.

2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

1. To stop (an action); cease, desist.
2. To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. To be sparing or mean.

   The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

4. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
5. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
6. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

noun

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.