Definitions For Estray

Verb

{{en-verb}} (archaic) To stray. : (Daniel)

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, stray.

Etymology

From Middle English astrai, from {{der, en, xno, estray}}, from the {{der, en, fro, -}} verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.

Related terms

astray stray

Anagrams

Stayer, e-trays, reasty, satyre, starey, stayer, stayre, tyrase, yarest