Distraint is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 350 anagrams from letters in distraint (adiinrstt).
1720-30; distrain + -t, modeled on constraint, restraint
Father once apologised to me—that was when there was a distraint out against him, if you know what that is—because he wasn't rich.
No one may drive animals taken by distraint out of the county where they have been taken.
Law and custom restricted the type of goods and chattels distrainable, and the time and manner of distraint.
When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
This morning a letter has arrived, threatening a distraint upon our goods unless a large sum of money be paid by to-morrow.
Oh, it's very simple; a judgment and then a distraint—that's about it!
At Michaelmas, 1817, the Duke of Somerset had made a distraint for rent.
On the house and property a distraint had been levied for moneys due which had not been paid.
If a man levies a distraint upon an ox as security for debt, he shall pay of a mana of silver.
Distrain′ment; Distrain′or, Distrain′er; distraint′, seizure of goods.
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