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Straggle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. stragl. [This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]

2. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove. When troops are on the march, let not the men straggle

3. To wander at large without an certain direction or object; to ramble.

4. The wolf spied a straggling kid.

5. To exuberate; to shoot too far in growth. Prune the straggling branches of the hedge.

6. To be dispersed; to be apart from any main body.

7. They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

Straggle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of straggling.

Straggle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

Straggled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Straggle

Straggler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A wanderer; a rover; one that departs from the direct or proper course; one that rambles without any settled direction.

2. A vagabond; a wandering shiftless fellow.

3. Something that shoots beyond the rest or too far.

4. Something that stands by itself.

Straggler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.

2. A roving vagabond.

3. Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.

4. Something that stands alone or by itself.