estray
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estray
- /əˈstɹeɪ/
Where it comes from
From Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from the Old French verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.
noun estrays
- An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
- Stray. [...] All the day / Had been a dreary one at best, and dim / Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim / Red leer to see the plain catch its estray.
verb estrays · estraying · estrayed
- To stray. With other Maids to fiſh upon the Shoar; Estrays apart, and leaves her Company
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title = {estray},
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