Hypertext Webster Gateway: "straint"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Straint \Straint\ (str[=a]nt), n. [OF. estrainte, estreinte, F.
['e]trainte. See 2nd {Strain}.]
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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