Stent (?), v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente (?); obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.]
To keep within limits; to restain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Then would he weep, he might not be stent.
Chaucer.
Yet n'ould she stent
Her bitter railing and foul revilement.
Spenser.
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Stent, v. i.
To stint; to stop; to cease.
And of this cry they would never stenten.
Chaucer.
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Stent, n.
An allotted portion; a stint.
"Attain'd his journey's
stent."
Mir. for Mag.
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