estray
Americannoun
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a person or animal that has strayed.
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Law. a domestic animal, as a horse or a sheep, found wandering or without an owner.
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of estray
1250–1300; Middle English astrai < Anglo-French estray, derivative of Old French estraier to stray
Example Sentences
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“Throughout the past year, we offered real solutions to the Forest Service for the Gila estray problem. Those solutions would address the immediate issue, provide long-term resolution and would be humane.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Then the sombre village crier, Ringing loud his brazen bell, Wandered down the street proclaiming: There was an estray to sell.
From Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth
But when I drew nearer, to view the sleeping estray, heavens! what a sight!
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland
And a health to the one away, Who drifts down careless Italy, God's wanderer and estray!
From Songs from Vagabondia by Richard Hovey
Assuring himself that she was the estray, Fred looked at her bag to see the condition of that.
From The Hunters of the Ozark by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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