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verb (used without object), -gled, -gling.
1.
to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
2.
to wander about in a scattered fashion; ramble.
3.
to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals: The trees straggle over the countryside.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English straglen < ?
1350–1400; Middle English straglen < ?
Related forms
strag·gler, noun
strag·gling·ly, adverb
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straggle
c.1400, "to wander from the proper path, to rove from one's companions," perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. dialectal Norw. stragla "to walk laboriously"), or a frequentative of straken "to move, go." Specifically of soldiers from 1529.
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