Stinter

[+ -ER¹.] One who or something that stints, in the senses of the verb.

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1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. I. Eden, 140. If there … the Sun (the Season’s stinter) Made no hot Summer, nor no hoary Winter.

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1611. Cotgr., Limiteur, a limiter, bounder, stinter.

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1701. Mem. St. Giles’s (Surtees), 96. All these present Inhabitants … not booked as Stinters, or y^t have not paid for … their Gates on our stinted Pasture … shall have no right there without paying … Six pounds in hand for their six Gates.

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a. 1716. South, Serm. (1727), II. 112. Let us now see whether a Set-form, or this Extemporary way, be the greater hinderer, and stinter of it [the Spirit of Prayer].

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