What does "stent" mean?
Stent: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. Chaucer.
- 3.An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent." Mir. for Mag.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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