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

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

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

The wolf spied a straggling kid.

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

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

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
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Straggle (straggle)
v. i.(?)
Strag"gle
[imp. *** p. p. Straggled (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Straggling (?).] [Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]
  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.
    Dryden.
  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.
    "Straggling pistol shots." Sir W. Scott.

    They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh.

  5. The act of straggling.
    [R.] Carlyle.

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