stint n also stent OED ~ sb1 9 (Nfld: 1792); DC Lab (1788). A beaver-dam; stretch of deep water into which or from which a stream flows.
[1770] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 60 [I] soon met with a pool, which had a new stint across the foot of it. (1778] ibid ii, 325-6 The stint was the longest and completest I ever saw; it extended across a small vale, through which ran a narrow rill of water, by which means a pond, of about an acre, was formed; that is often the practice of those industrious animals. 1792 ibid Gloss i, xv ~ The dam made by beavers across a stream to raise the water to a height convenient for their purpose. P 13-73 The ice is treacherous in the stent.
