distrainor

From distrain +‎ -or.

distrainor (plural distrainors)

1. (obsolete, law) Someone 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

• distrainer
• bailiff
• repo man (from repossession)

• “distrainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.