distrainor

English

Etymology

From distrain +‎ -or.

Noun

distrainor (plural distrainors)

1. (law) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the distrainor happens to come again into possession of his own property in goods which before he had lost

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distrainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

• distrainer
• bailiff
• repo man (from repossession)

Translations

one who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels

• Hungarian: végrehajtó (hu), zálogba vevő