Stintage

[f. STINT sb.¹ or v. + -AGE.]

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1. a. = STINTING vbl. sb. 2. b. The allotment of ‘stints.’ (Cf. STINT sb.¹ 6.)

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1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 116. In the middle field beyond Keldiegate where the flatte runnes out, that is called the stintage, and that which is up towards the Spellowe heads is sayd to bee above the stintinge.

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1894. Carlisle Patriot, 4 May, 3/7 (Cumbld. Gloss.). The old herds were reappointed for the summer stintage.

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2. Niggardly apportionment.

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1882. Jas. Walker, Jaunt to Auld Reekie, 250. Thy mean penurious stintage O’ earthly pleasure.

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