Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to be distrained, or seized in satisfaction of a claim, or in order to compel the performance of some obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being, or liable to be,
distrained .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
distrain + -able
Examples
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Where they have not distrainable property, which is occasionally the case, they never fly, but submit to the known punishment, and go patiently to prison.
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