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ram⋅ble

  [ram-buhl] verb, -bled, -bling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
2. to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path.
3. to grow in a random, unsystematic fashion: The vine rambled over the walls and tree trunks.
4. to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way (usually fol. by on): The speaker rambled on with anecdote after anecdote.
–verb (used with object)
5. to walk aimlessly or idly over or through: They spent the spring afternoon rambling woodland paths.
–noun
6. a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure.
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Origin:
1610–20; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
1. stroll, saunter, amble, stray, straggle. See roam.
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ram·ble   (rām'bəl)   
intr.v.   ram·bled, ram·bling, ram·bles

  1. To move about aimlessly. See Synonyms at wander.

  2. To walk about casually or for pleasure.

  3. To follow an irregularly winding course of motion or growth.

  4. To speak or write at length and with many digressions.

n.  A leisurely, sometimes lengthy walk.

[Probably from Middle Dutch *rammelen, to wander about in a state of sexual desire, from rammen, to copulate with.]
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Word Origin & History

ramble  (v.)
c.1443, perhaps frequentative of romen "to walk, go" (see roam), perhaps via romblen (c.1378) "to ramble." The vowel change probably by infl. of M.Du. rammelen, a derivative of rammen "copulate," "used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat" [Weekley]. Meaning "to talk or write incoherently" is from 1640.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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