What is the name meaning of STRAY. Phrases containing STRAY
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STRAY
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Irish
From ron “â€a seal.â€â€ Legend tells of a seal who is warned never to stray too close to the land. When the “â€seal childâ€â€ is swept ashore by a huge wave, she becomes trapped in a human form, known as a “â€Selkieâ€â€ or “â€seal maiden.â€â€ Although she lives as the wife of a fisherman and bears him children, known as “â€ronansâ€â€ or “â€little seals,â€â€ she never quite loses her “â€sea-longing.â€â€ Eventually she finds the “â€seal-skinâ€â€ which the fisherman has hidden and slips back into the ocean. But she can’t forget her husband and children and can even be seen swimming close to the shore, keeping a watchful eye on them.
Male
English
Cornish and English form of French Degaré, probably DIGORY means "strayed, lost."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Woman who Strays from Husband
Male
French
From the medieval romance Sir Degaré, probably from the French word égaré, DEGARÉ means "strayed, lost."Â
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Sussex and Kent)
English (mainly Sussex and Kent) : from Middle English punfold ‘pound’, Old English pundfald, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound; alternatively it may have been a habitational name from a minor place named with this word such as Poundfield in East Sussex.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English p(o)und ‘enclosure (especially for confining animals)’; a topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure in which animals were kept, or a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound.Probably a translation of German Pfund or the North German cognate Pund.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Agder named Strai, of uncertain derivation.
Male
English
English form of French Degaré, probably DIGGORY means "strayed, lost."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.English : metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.English : pet form of Parnell.German : from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father’s services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for an official who was responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound, from an agent derivative of Middle English pind(en) ‘to shut up or enclose’. Black and MacLysaght quote Woulfe’s opinion that in Ireland this is often a reduced form of Prendergast.
Boy/Male
British, Christian, English
Lost; Strayed
STRAY
STRAY
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
The River Godavari
Female
English
Pet form of English Deborah, DEBS means "bee."
Boy/Male
Hindu
The Sun God, Another name for Surya
Boy/Male
Norse
Relic descendant.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Fearless
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
A Friend
Girl/Female
Tamil
Protection
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Ear Ring; Ear Ornament
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Elixir of Naam
Boy/Male
Latin
A Greek poet.
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STRAY
v. i.
To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
n.
The act of wandering or going astray.
v. i.
To wander; to roam; to stray.
a.
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
v. t.
To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
n.
One who strays; a wanderer.
v. i.
To go or stray at random.
imp. & p. p.
of Stray
a.
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
v. i.
Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
a.
Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
v. t.
To cause to stray.
n.
A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
v. i.
To deviate; to stray; to wander.
n.
The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
v. i.
To stray; to wander; to rope.
n.
Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stray
n.
A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.
v. t.
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.