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Animal that has wandered off
Answer for the clue "Animal that has wandered off ", 6 letters:
estray
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Word definitions for estray in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Estray \Es*tray"\ n. (Law) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray. --Burrill.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Estray , in law, is any domestic animal found wandering at large or lost, particularly if the owner is unknown. In most cases this includes domesticated animals and not pets. Under early English common law , estrays were forfeited to the king or lord of ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) 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 ...
Usage examples of estray.
The early minutes of the State Alliance indicate that the rounding up of estrays was the most important practical feature of the order at that time, but in a few years this was overshadowed by cooperation.