The act of becoming a stray or causing an animal to wander away without an owner.
Present participle of 'estray', describing the ongoing action or process of an animal becoming lost or unclaimed.
Medieval court records actually document the process of 'estraying'—when an animal was formally declared estrayed, it entered into a legal process where the owner had a limited time to reclaim it.
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