English

Verb

enstraiten ‎(third-person singular simple present enstraitens, present participle enstraitening, simple past and past participle enstraitened)

1. (archaic) Render narrow or narrower; make strait; curtail (property).
   • 1589: Robert Payne, A briefe description of Ireland, p11

     He hath already to plesure his countrie instraightned his demeanes.

2. (rare, literary) Constrain; bring into straits.
   • 1618: Edmund Bolton, The Roman histories of Lucius Julius Florus, p142

     But the Romans had enstraitned her before she was aware thereof.

References

1. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).

Anagrams

• entertains, Tarentines, tenantries