Straggle

Definition of Straggle

Strag´gle
v. i.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.
[imp. & p. p. Straggled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling .]
2.To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
- L'Estrange.
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.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
- Mortimer.
4.To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
- Sir W. Raleigh.
n.1.The act of straggling.

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