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ESTRAY
Etymology
Noun
estray (plural estrays)
(legal) 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.
(archaic) Stray.
Verb
estray (third-person singular simple present estrays, present participle estraying, simple past and past participle estrayed)
(archaic) To stray.
Anagrams
• Stayer, e-trays, reasty, satyre, starey, stayer, stayre, tyrase, yarest
Source: Wiktionary
Es*tray", v. i.
Definition: To stray. [Obs.] Daniel.
Es*tray" n. (Law)
Definition: Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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