Definitions for estray

estray es·tray

Spelling: [ih-strey]
IPA: /ɪˈstreɪ/

Estray is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in estray (aersty).

Definitions for estray

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)

  1. Archaic. to stray.

Origin of estray

1250-1300; Middle English astrai Anglo-French estray, derivative of Old French estraier to stray

Examples for estray

Fred Godfrey was almost in sight of his home, when he was both pleased and alarmed by coming upon an estray horse.

A man can always recognize his estray, and when she is recognized she will come to heel.

Had it not been taken in tow by the runabout, it could not have remained an estray much longer.

Supposing him to have belonged to the old Count's stud of foreign horses, we led him back as an estray.

But such an estray, such a piece of flotsam, was Audrey, that she could not help him out.

That would mean, that a lost horse had been killed or an estray steer.

If she really was an estray, she had missed two milkings—that of the previous night and the morning that succeeded.

A rescue party had come in search of the estray, and they were soon brought with rejoicing home.

And a health to the one away, Who drifts down careless Italy, God's wanderer and estray!

She desired to convert some one, to recover some estray, to reform some wretch.

Word Value for estray
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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