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es⋅tray

  [i-strey]
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–noun
1. a person or animal that has strayed.
2. Law. a domestic animal, as a horse or a sheep, found wandering or without an owner.
–verb (used without object)
3. Archaic. to stray.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME astrai < AF estray, deriv. of OF estraier to stray
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es·tray   (ĭ-strā')   
n.  A stray.
intr.v.   es·trayed, es·tray·ing, es·trays
To stray.

[Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from estraier, to stray, from Old French; see stray.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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