Associations to the word «Straggle»

Wiktionary

STRAGGLE, verb. To stray from the road, course or line of march.
STRAGGLE, verb. To wander about; ramble.
STRAGGLE, verb. To spread at irregular intervals.
STRAGGLE, verb. 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.
STRAGGLE, verb. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
STRAGGLE, noun. The act of straggling.

Dictionary definition

STRAGGLE, noun. A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers".
STRAGGLE, verb. Wander from a direct or straight course.
STRAGGLE, verb. Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus