Usually means: Recover fines from court records.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. estreat: Merriam-Webster
  2. estreat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. estreat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. estreat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. estreat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. estreat: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Estreat, estreat: Dictionary.com
  8. Estreat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Estreat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. estreat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Estreat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. estreat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. estreat: FreeDictionary.org
  14. estreat: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. estreat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. estreat: Wordnik
  17. estreat: Wiktionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Estreat: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (estreat)

noun:  (law) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
verb:  (law) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance.
verb:  To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.

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