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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stint \Stint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.] 1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. [1913 Webster] I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] She stints them in their meals. --Law. [1913 Webster] 2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent. [1913 Webster] 4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares. [1913 Webster] The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. --J. H. Walsh. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinted": Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, boxed in, circumscribed, confined, cramped, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, icebound, impoverished, jejune, landlocked, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, qualified, restricted, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, snowbound, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery, windbound