Definition of Straints

1. straint [n] - See also: straint

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straints

strainer
strainer vine
strainers
strainful
straining
straining beam
straining beams
strainings
strainmeter
strainmeters
strainometer
strainometers
strains
straint
straintronics
straints (current term)
strait
strait-laced
strait and narrow
straited
straiten
straitened
straitened times
straitening
straitens
straiter
straitest
straiting
straitjacket
straitjacketed

Literary usage of Straints

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"I straints of a power which they scarcely per- He must be a very cold philosopher indeed, ceive, and the crimes of a single individual i ho, ..."

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