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Estray   Listen
noun
Estray  n.  (Law) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Estray" Quotes from Famous Books



... as despair, I turned from him, That hateful cripple, out of his highway Into the path he pointed. All the day Had been a dreary one at best, and dim Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim Red leer to see the plain catch its estray. ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning

... chance for which Wygwind and his band were waiting came that morning when Captain Shirril, his nephew, and Shackaye set out to hunt the estray cattle. While Avon was engaged in conquering the troublesome steer, with the captain attentively watching him, Shackaye remounted his horse, from which he had been thrown, and made ...
— The Great Cattle Trail • Edward S. Ellis

... reached the nearest margin of the herd. Cheyenne, a nameless estray from the Wyoming ranges, chanced to be holding herd where the two rode up. At him Tom looked, suspicion for the moment sharpening ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower



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