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Definition of Strayers
1. strayer [n] - See also: strayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strayers
Literary usage of Strayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1880)
"STRAYERs.—Received ffor a certayne bollock and a sheepe beyng strayers and so
brought yn to the courte and solde—ix' ..."
2. Husbandry Spiritualized: Or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things, in which by John Flavel (1824)
"You are glad when you have found your strayers ; much more is Christ when he hath
... When you have brought home your strayers, you sometimes clog them, ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... and against them evermore The waves of Amphitrite the dark-blue-eyed do roar ;
60 And these Rocks are called the strayers by the blessed Gods above, ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"They have not at present actually broken that treaty, but they claim to keep to
their marauding habits, driving away or killing all chance strayers into ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"and ponies, sent them off to track the strayers before the snow- melted. I will
now pass more quickly over the next two months. Throughout the month of June ..."
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