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Definition of Estraying
1. estray [v] - See also: estray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estraying
Literary usage of Estraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence by John Frederick Archbold, John Jervis, William Newland Welsby, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1853)
"Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons estraying any horse, mare,
colt, mule, jack or jennet, shall send or take away the same out of the ..."
2. The British Bibliographer by Joseph Haslewood, Sir Egerton Brydges (1812)
"... that none doth follow, And all alone, so farre estraying mourneth, Knowing
what danger it is in, with hollow And fainting ..."
3. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... and we say that the said said swans were estraying at the time in the place
where, &c. and we as landlords did seise and make proclamation in fairs and ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"726, it was held that an averment that defendant took up and used certain oxen "
without estraying the same in the manner prescribed by law," is equivalent ..."
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