Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

smallest American sandpiper

A stint is one of several very small waders in the genus Calidris (or possibly Erolia), which in North America are known as peeps.

A phalarope.

Stint is a basic task/todo system with item history. All changes to tasks are timestamped and logged. The user can optionally associate a comment with a change so it's possible to find out exactly when and why a change was made.

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.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"

supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

limiting, especially the rights of pasture.

an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

To put an end to; to stop.

To stop; to cease.

Run between start-pitstop, pitstop-pitstop, pitstop-finish. E.g. if a driver has two stops and finishes the race, he had three stints.

To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"