estray
a person or animal that has strayed.
Law. a domestic animal, as a horse or a sheep, found wandering or without an owner.
Archaic. to stray.
Origin of estray
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How to use estray in a sentence
And a health to the one away, Who drifts down careless Italy, God's wanderer and estray!
Songs from Vagabondia | Bliss Carman and Richard HoveyThe smaller seemed a mere estray, a spray blown down by the recent gale.
Great Ghost Stories | VariousA rescue party had come in search of the estray, and they were soon brought with rejoicing home.
French Classics | William Cleaver WilkinsonFred Godfrey was almost in sight of his home, when he was both pleased and alarmed by coming upon an estray horse.
Wyoming | Edward Sylvester EllisAssuring himself that she was the estray, Fred looked at her bag to see the condition of that.
The Hunters of the Ozark | Edward S. Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for estray
/ (ɪˈstreɪ) /
law a stray domestic animal of unknown ownership
Origin of estray
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