straint
English
Etymology
From Old French estrainte, estreinte, French étrainte. See strain.
Noun
straint
- (obsolete) strain (tension of overexertion)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- That with the straint o his weasand nigh he brast
References
- “straint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.