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Dictionary Results for distraint:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
distraint
    n 1: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment
         of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress
         was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents
         or property damage but now the landlord is given a
         landlord's lien" [syn: distress, distraint]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Distraint \Dis*traint"\, n. [OF. destrainte distress, force.]
   (Law)
   The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by
   distress. --Abbott.
   [1913 Webster]
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