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v. Present participle of distrain.

"A majority of his customers obtained their pianos on the "hire-purchase system," and oftener than not, they were persons of very small or very precarious income, who, rabid in the pursuit of gentility signed agreements they had little chance of fulfilling; when in pecuniary straits, they either raised money upon the instruments, or allowed them to fall into the hands of distraining creditors."

distrained    distraining    distrains   

repossess    reclaim    impose    Levy    sequester   

distrainee    distrainable    distraint    distrainment    distrainor   

rend    tear    coerce    distress   

distraint    quarry-man    woe-stricken    dispair    where-ever