straint

English

Etymology

From Old French estrainte, estreinte, French étrainte. See strain.

Noun

straint

1. (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.

Anagrams

• start in, transit, Transit, startin', Tristan