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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