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Distraint

noun
1.
The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim.  Synonym: distress.





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... charity, but I wish to add one remark, Charity begins at home. There is about a hundred pounds of tithe owing to me, and some of it has been owing for two years and more. If that tithe is not paid I shall have to put distraint on some of you, and I thought that I had better take this opportunity to ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard


Words linked to "Distraint" :   distress, seizure


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