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estraier2 (s.xii3/4)
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estraier2 (s.xii3/4)

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estraer,  estraire,  estrauer;  estreer,  estreier,  estreire  
  FEW:  strata 12,291b Gdf:  estraier 1 3,637a / estraier 2 3,637b GdfC: ∅ TL: estraier 3 3,1435 DEAF:  estree 1 (estraier 3)  DMF:  estrayer 2  TLF: ∅ OED:  astray v.  / estray v.  / stray v. 2  MED:  astraien v.  DMLBS:  estraiare 809a

v.trans.

to cast away, abandon: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Atant ad par irour la lance estraiee, Sache le brant del forre  Rom Chev ANTS 617

v.intrans.

to stray, roam loose: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  les chevals vont fuiant; Estraier (var. (P: c.1310) Estraite) vont par les rencs, lur raynes trainant  Rom Chev ANTS 4098
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Tanz chevals veissez estreire  Waldef BB 1185
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Tanz chevals veissez estraire E tanz chevalers crier e braire  Gui War 1847
( 1284-1307 )  il les lest estraer parmy le pays  Northumb 114
( MS: c.1310 )  les bestes le dit T. passent outre l’eawe avantdite et estraient et entrent la commune de B.  Nov Narr 206
( 1353 )  les queux .iiij. boefs estraierent hors de la dite pasture  Corr Lond 459

p.pr. as a.

strayed, gone astray: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  wrek de mer et bestes estrayauntes  BRITT i 216

p.p. as a.

strayed, gone astray: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  Estraé fuient cil auferant destrer  Otinel 1628
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ke lez gardeins dez chivaus [...] ne de berbiz ne augent a feire [...] ne a la taverne parunt lez bestes avantdites augent estraez sanz garde  HENLEY2 278.c42
( 1319 )  dit q’il truva estraué (var. estraiant ; estrayant ) un porc  YBB Ed II xxv 123
laier estraier
laier
lesser estraier
(of people, animal) to abandon, fail to look after: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Asez en (=combatants) laissent lez le mur estraier Ki n’orent pas leisir pur relever  FANT OUP 652
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  vus requerum Ke vus ne nus laissez estraire  ADGAR3 190.985
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Grant pechié est leisser estraire Le poeple Deu  S Clem ANTS 13369

See also:

estrai 
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