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Definition of Stinters
1. stinter [n] - See also: stinter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinters
Literary usage of Stinters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by James Barmby (1896)
"... of the stinters unanimously agree to Give for every Stint we keep one ye said
moor or pasture a Large Cart Load of manure Commonly caled a Water Cart or ..."
2. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by James Barmby (1896)
"... severall Acres of Whins on the said more or stinted pasture We the Twenty four
and the rest of the stinters unanimously agree to Give for every Stint we ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"For the " too kind" are often self-stinters. On a principle of self-interest,
for their own personal advantage, they could scarcely be brought, perhaps, ..."
4. The Athlete's Garland: A Collection of Verse of Sport and Pastime by Wallace Rice (1905)
"... ye distance men, ye hurdlers and ye sprinters, of pluck unsparing and of pace
no stinters, ye who with arms outstretched or fingers grounded, ..."
5. Studier i engelsk og tysk handels historie: en undersøgelse af by Erik Arup (1907)
"... appointed stinters. 1 It is with general consent thought fitt (out of necessity
to seeke the ..."
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