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distrainer

distrainer is the alternative form of distrainor.

Meaning of distrainor

Noun

distrainor (plural distrainors)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
    • the distrainor happens to come again into possession of his own property in goods which before he had lost1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Forms of distrainer

pluraldistrainers

Words that rhyme with distrainer

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Questions about distrainer

What is distrainer the alternative form of?
Distrainer is the alternative form of distrainor.

Words near distrainer in the dictionary

  1. distrain
  2. distrainable
  3. distrained
  4. distrainee
  5. distrainees
  6. distrainer
  7. distrainers
  8. distraineth
  9. distraining
  10. distrainings
  11. distrainment

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