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estrays

estrays is the plural of estray.

Meaning of estray

Noun

estray (plural estrays)

  1. 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.
  2. (archaic) Stray.
    • [...] 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.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VIII

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Questions about estrays

What is estrays the plural of?
Estrays is the plural of estray.

Words near estrays in the dictionary

  1. estratetraenol
  2. estratriene
  3. estray
  4. estrayed
  5. estraying
  6. estrays
  7. estrazinol
  8. estre
  9. estreat
  10. estreated
  11. estreating

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