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estray

/ih-strey/US // ɪˈstreɪ //UK // (ɪˈstreɪ) //

雌雄异体

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or animal that has strayed.
    • : Law. a domestic animal, as a horse or a sheep, found wandering or without an owner.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to stray.

Examples

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

  • The smaller seemed a mere estray, a spray blown down by the recent gale.

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

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

  • Assuring himself that she was the estray, Fred looked at her bag to see the condition of that.