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Distrain

verb
(past & past part. distrained; pres. part. distraining)
1.
Levy a distress on.
2.
Confiscate by distress.
3.
Legally take something in place of a debt payment.





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"Distrain" Quotes from Famous Books



... very rapidly) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed baast off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. I'll go on distraining, and I'll advertise, and I'll cant, and I'll sell the distress at the end of the eight days. And if they dare for to go for to put a plough in that bit of reclaimed bog, I'll come down upon 'em with ...
— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth
... a full good honorable company, and at many a fair deed of arms (albeit that I did none myself, for mine unable insuffisance), now I am come home, in spite of myself, to rest, for gouts arthritic that me distrain, that define the end of my labor; against my ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I • Francis W. Halsey


Words linked to "Distrain" :   sequester, repossess, reclaim, impound, seize, attach, impose, confiscate, levy


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