Hunting. A check or stop in the running of hounds owing to the loss of the scent; chiefly in the phrases to be on (a) stint, to fall upon stint. Obs…
a foiling (see foil, v.1 2) of the track by sheep.
Any scent that tends to obliterate that of a hunted animal. Cf. foil, v.1 2.
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