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Spraint vs Straint - What's the difference?

spraint | straint |

As nouns the difference between spraint and straint

is that spraint is misspelling of sprained while straint is overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

spraint

English

(wikipedia spraint)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of otter dung. Usually used when referring to the observation and tracking of otters.
    • In this region the average spraint number per site is 3.9.
    Figure 1 shows a photograph of an Otter spraint.

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    straint

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) overexertion; excessive tension; strain
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)