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noun
- ({1, (legal) Animal that has escaped from its owner. A legal term, usually defined in common law, as 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.)}
- ({2, (archaic) Stray.)}
verb
- ({3, (archaic) To stray.)}
Etymology: (rfc-level, Etymology not at level 3)Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from Old French estraier.
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