English Dictionary

estray

IPA（発音記号）

/ə.stɹeɪ/

名詞

古語

(law) 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.

日本語の意味

飼い主から逃げ出した家畜、またはそのような状況で所有者が不明の放浪動物（法的な定義における意味）

The farmer reported the estray to the county clerk after finding the lost cow wandering near the road.

農夫は道端にさまよっている迷子の牛を見つけ、その所有者から逃げた動物として郡書記官に届け出ました。

意味（1）

(law) 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.

意味（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.

estrays （ plural ）