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▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
▸ verb: (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
▸ verb: 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.
▸ verb: (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
▸ noun: A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
▸ noun: Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
▸ noun: Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
▸ noun: (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
▸ noun: Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
▸ noun: Misspelling of stent (“medical device”). [A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.]
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stretch,
skimp,
scrimp,
scant,
erolia minutilla,
least sandpiper,
stanch,
stow,
atstunt,
stop,
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