Distrain /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Distrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Distraining

1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.]
2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.]

   Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain.

3. To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (Law)

1. To levy a distress.

   Upon whom I can distrain for debt.