stragglev.¹

/ˈstraɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English stragyll, Middle English–1500s stragel, Middle English–1700s stragle, 1500s– straggle.

Etymology: Of somewhat uncertain etymology; perhaps an alteration of *strackle frequentative < strake v.¹: see -le suffix. Compare dialect strackle-brain , strackling , a giddy, thoughtless person (which, however, may be connected rather with stract distract adj.) The dialect strag a vagabond, a stray pigeon, may perhaps be a back-formation from the verb.

a. intransitive. To wander or stray from the proper road, one's companions, etc.; to rove without fixed direction; to go up and down dispersedly. Often conjugated with be. Often with adverb, as about, abroad, away, behind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move without fixed course

stragglea1425

ambulate1598

random?1602

stray1647

stimmer1808

knocka1825

moil1889

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > stray or go astray

dwelec900

miswendOE

to fare astray (misliche, amiss)c1175

to step astray, awry, beside1297

weyec1315

outrayc1330

strayc1330

waivea1375

forvay1390

outwandera1400

stragglea1425

waverc1485

wander?1507

swerve1543

wift?a1560

random1561

estray1572

egar1584

to go a-strayinga1586

to step aside1787

err1819

moider1839

maverick1910

a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv Þe forster shulde haue men redely þere too meete with hym, þat þei go no ferther nor stragle aboute.

c1450 Brut 576 Both horse~men and footemen, with huntyng of hem, were stragelt abrode ouer all þe feldys, and were al out of array.

1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 519 Thei have no capteyn ner rewler..and so thei stragyll abowte be them-self.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M5 [They] runne stragling, and rouing..from towne to towne.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B2 To see if any of his ewes and lambes were straggled downe to the strond.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xi. 178 There is no danger that weak folks if they walk abroad will straggle farre.

1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iii. 34 He..looks about him like a Callow-bird Just straggl'd from the Nest.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 195 Turkeys being very apt to straggle will often be laying their Eggs in secret places.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶1 They [sc. Gypsies] generally straggle into these Parts about this Time of the Year.

1768 G. White Let. 28 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 58 It is very extraordinary..that a bird so common with us should never straggle to you.

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. i. 142 When the first crowd [of seals] is past, they kill as many as straggle behind.

1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands x. 111 Captain Wilson's servant, who was straggling about with his gun to kill some fowl for dinner.

1877 H. Saunders in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878) 171 An individual of this species [Larus affinis] which had straggled to Greenland.

b. spec. of a soldier: To wander from the line of march, stray from one's company. Also of a ship: To stray from the line of battle. Of a sailor: To be absent from his ship without leave or overstay his leave.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > form or reform [verb (intransitive)] > fall into line > fall out of line or rank

outrayc1330

disrange1485

disarray1523

disorder1523

straggle?1530

square1583

disrank1606

to fall out1623

society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > be absent without leave

straggle1863

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Diii .xx. archers, whiche straggled [printed strangled] from theyr companye.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 102 To be carefull that the souldiers straggle not.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 201 She was somewhat far stragled from the rest of the ships.

1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 171 Keep then at the head of your Pelotoon..and suffer not the Men of it to straggle or break their Rank.

1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 188 The Rear-Admiral's division had straggled, and was a great way astern of the centre.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert vii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 208 If any straggle from their standards, or insult the country by marauding.

1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 395 People who have overstaid their leave of absence, or straggled.

1913 Q. Rev. Oct. 555 They sickened or straggled or frankly deserted.

†c. Of a merchant: To intrude into a market where he has no licence to trade; to ‘interlope’. Obsolete. Cf. straggler n. 3, straggling adj. b.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > intrude in market or unlicensed trade

straggle1588

1588 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XVI. 83 The Merchauntes..goe straglinge about all the countrey adjoyninge, forstallinge, inhansinge, and raysinge the pryce of all kynd of commodytyes there.

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 53 Such stragling by free, and vnfree English vsed in Germanie, and the townes of the Lowe Countries out of the Marte townes, is so vnseemely, vnmerchantlike [etc.].

1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 80 Having lost their Priuiledges, partly by their owne Stragling.

d. transferred and figurative (of persons and things).

ΚΠ

a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. G4^v Be thou stedfast and no doubt thou shalt not finde him stragling.

1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 329 The collicke..doth straggle ouer the whole region of the belly.

1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 6 That sovran Book which we had fondly straggl'd from.

a1661 T. Fuller Triana (1867) 188 Vices straggle not alone, but go in companies.

a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §29 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 90 He that will observe Children, will find, that even when they endeavour their uttermost, they cannot keep their Minds from straggling.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶6 One of the last Year's little Muffs had by some means or other stragled into those Parts.

1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 35 To compress within three Lines, what must otherwise straggle into four.

1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man i. 5 Its sun-dial in a little bricked-up corner, where no sun had straggled for a hundred years.

1885 Athenæum 7 Feb. 193 Goldsmith..straggled into literature as the humble hack of Griffiths the bookseller.

1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy I. xxv. 138 Here let the novelty be my excuse if my pen straggle a little.

e. Of a plant, branch, etc.: To grow irregularly or loosely; to spread or shoot too far. Also, of hair: to spread in lank or untidy strands. Cf. straggling adj. c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged > specifically of plants or hair

straggle1693

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [verb (intransitive)] > thin, lank

straggle1940

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Treat. Orange Trees x. 25 in Compl. Gard'ner To Cut away..all that part which grows out of due Rank, and stragles beyond its bound.

1762 R. Lloyd Poems 10 Though prudence, and our nature's pride May wish our weaknesses to hide, And set their hedges up before 'em, Some sprouts will branch, and straggle o'er 'em.

1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes i, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/2 How these tall Naked geraniums straggle!

1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xvii. 106 Her dirty hair straggled on the pillow.

1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning i. 17 Her hair straggled untidily over the pillow.

f. Of inanimate objects: To be arranged dispersedly or irregularly; to be situated apart from any main body or from one another. Of a town, building, etc.: To be built irregularly and without compactness. Of a road, river, fence, etc.: To wind in an irregular course.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged

straggle1612

straggle1898

the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > change direction > turn or bend > bend or wind

twine1553

crankle1598

crinklea1600

creek1610

straggle1612

wind1613

serpentize1699

wander1747

serpentine1767

meander1785

zigzag1787

serpentinize1791

twister1872

snake1875

twist1879

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xx. 39/1 The forme thereof is somewhat circular, with many indents to fetch in those Townes that are dispersedly stragled into her next shire.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. i. 607 Sometimes they finde it [silver] straggling, in peeces, not holding any continuing Veine.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 250 This said William Paston..lies buryed in Norwich; so that his corps..do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors, who..were all interred at Paston.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 31 The River Oder,..staggles so, as that to come to the City from Dam side, a man must pass over six bridges.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 290 A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek.

1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xvi. 222 It [sc. the road]..straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest.

1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. iii. 42 In another direction the houses went straggling away into a wood.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi The..township..straggled around the edge of a sombre watercourse.

2. Misused for straddle v. rare.Cf. dialect straggle-bug = straddle-bug, strag-legs (Ireland) = straddle-legs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] > straddle (of a thing)

straddle1596

stride1605

straggle1609

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xi. 206 The whole multitude..came upon Georgius, whome they haled and tugged with his legs and feet wide stragling.

†a. transitive. To scatter, disperse. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (things) about in disorder

scatterc1330

sparplea1350

tedc1560

straggle1589

squatter1611

disparple1613

flurr1661

litter1734

1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 19 The dead body of one of our boyes, found by them stragling all alone, from whom they had taken his head and his heart, and had stragled the other bowels about the place.

b. passive. To be placed stragglingly. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged

straggle1612

straggle1898

1898 Secretan To Klondyke & Back 110 At this time the ‘City’ consisted of several hundred tents, straggled along in the mud for about a mile and a half.

1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 479/2 Few have seen the little, old town straggled along the backwater.

Derivatives

ˈstraggled adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective]

disperse1393

distract1398

scattereda1425

skailed1488

dispersed1526

dissipate1606

dissipated1610

straggled1641

disjected1647

respersed1649

disparpled1652

disseminated1662

shattered1687

sundered1796

decentralized1851

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > irregularly arranged

straggling1604

extravagant1608

scattering1610

squanderinga1616

scambling1702

scragglinga1722

wandering1785

straggly1862

straggled1884

1641 J. Shirley Cardinal (1652) v. iii. 62 Ha? if the Dutchess in her stragled wits, Let fall words to betray me to the Cardinal.

1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 33 Thronging and busie as Hyblæan Swarms, Or stragled Souldiers Summon'd to their Arms.

1787 P. Oliver 18 Mar. in T. Hutchinson Diary II. 424 Having nothing but a rusty straggled nail to write with.

1805 C. Collingwood Let. 24 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 217 The remnant of the Combined Fleet..stood up to leeward of my shattered and straggled charge as if meaning to attack them.

1884 ‘V. Lee’ C'tess Albany iii. 27 Its straggled, black and filthy streets.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 5/1 A rocky, splashing streamlet..fringed with patches of gorse and straggled belts of natural wood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	straggle
释义	stragglen. /ˈstraɡ(ə)l/ Forms: In Middle English–1500s stragill, stragyll. Etymology: < straggle v.¹ †1. at, to (the) straggle, in straggling order. Scottish. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adverb] > with irregular arrangement at, to (the) straggle1488 stragglingly1579 extravagantly1623 disordinately1830 scatter-wise1875 dislocatedly1883 sprawlingly1921 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 699 The frayit folk at stragill that was fleand. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 683 At stragyll raid quhat Scot mycht formest pas. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xi. 4 A few menȝe persewand our the plane, Quhilk at the stragill fled in all thar mane. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 49 Thaj tarijt nocht, bot past away with all spulȝie thaj mycht get. The Scottis followit thame to the stragill. 2. A body or group of scattered objects; an irregular or fitful emergence (of something); a thin, lank, or untidy growth (of hair). Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > irregular arrangement > a straggling or scattered array skail1487 sprawl1827 straggle1865 the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > thin, lank straggle1978 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. vi. 539 Here are some private utterances of his, throwing a straggle of light on those points. 1869 T. Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 266 With a considerable straggle of audience, I found this artist industriously fiddling. 1906 F. S. Oliver Alexander Hamilton iii. vi. 238 Where now there is but a thin straggle of stunted trees. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance i. 7 His once-thick brown hair was a gray straggle. 1979 C. MacLeod Family Vault xviii. 117 Edith, puffy-faced and straggle-haired, stumped upstairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). stragglev.¹ /ˈstraɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English stragyll, Middle English–1500s stragel, Middle English–1700s stragle, 1500s– straggle. Etymology: Of somewhat uncertain etymology; perhaps an alteration of strackle frequentative < strake v.¹: see -le suffix. Compare dialect strackle-brain* , strackling , a giddy, thoughtless person (which, however, may be connected rather with stract distract adj.) The dialect strag a vagabond, a stray pigeon, may perhaps be a back-formation from the verb. 1. a. intransitive. To wander or stray from the proper road, one's companions, etc.; to rove without fixed direction; to go up and down dispersedly. Often conjugated with be. Often with adverb, as about, abroad, away, behind. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move without fixed course stragglea1425 ambulate1598 random?1602 stray1647 stimmer1808 knocka1825 moil1889 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > stray or go astray dwelec900 miswendOE to fare astray (misliche, amiss)c1175 to step astray, awry, beside1297 weyec1315 outrayc1330 strayc1330 waivea1375 forvay1390 outwandera1400 stragglea1425 waverc1485 wander?1507 swerve1543 wift?a1560 random1561 estray1572 egar1584 to go a-strayinga1586 to step aside1787 err1819 moider1839 maverick1910 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv Þe forster shulde haue men redely þere too meete with hym, þat þei go no ferther nor stragle aboute. c1450 Brut 576 Both horse~men and footemen, with huntyng of hem, were stragelt abrode ouer all þe feldys, and were al out of array. 1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 519 Thei have no capteyn ner rewler..and so thei stragyll abowte be them-self. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M5 [They] runne stragling, and rouing..from towne to towne. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B2 To see if any of his ewes and lambes were straggled downe to the strond. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xi. 178 There is no danger that weak folks if they walk abroad will straggle farre. 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iii. 34 He..looks about him like a Callow-bird Just straggl'd from the Nest. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 195 Turkeys being very apt to straggle will often be laying their Eggs in secret places. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶1 They [sc. Gypsies] generally straggle into these Parts about this Time of the Year. 1768 G. White Let. 28 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 58 It is very extraordinary..that a bird so common with us should never straggle to you. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. i. 142 When the first crowd [of seals] is past, they kill as many as straggle behind. 1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands x. 111 Captain Wilson's servant, who was straggling about with his gun to kill some fowl for dinner. 1877 H. Saunders in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878) 171 An individual of this species [Larus affinis] which had straggled to Greenland. b. spec. of a soldier: To wander from the line of march, stray from one's company. Also of a ship: To stray from the line of battle. Of a sailor: To be absent from his ship without leave or overstay his leave. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > form or reform [verb (intransitive)] > fall into line > fall out of line or rank outrayc1330 disrange1485 disarray1523 disorder1523 straggle?1530 square1583 disrank1606 to fall out1623 society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > be absent without leave straggle1863 ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Diii .xx. archers, whiche straggled [printed* strangled] from theyr companye. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 102 To be carefull that the souldiers straggle not. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 201 She was somewhat far stragled from the rest of the ships. 1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 171 Keep then at the head of your Pelotoon..and suffer not the Men of it to straggle or break their Rank. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 188 The Rear-Admiral's division had straggled, and was a great way astern of the centre. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert vii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 208 If any straggle from their standards, or insult the country by marauding. 1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 395 People who have overstaid their leave of absence, or straggled. 1913 Q. Rev. Oct. 555 They sickened or straggled or frankly deserted. †c. Of a merchant: To intrude into a market where he has no licence to trade; to ‘interlope’. Obsolete. Cf. straggler n. 3, straggling adj. b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > intrude in market or unlicensed trade straggle1588 1588 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XVI. 83 The Merchauntes..goe straglinge about all the countrey adjoyninge, forstallinge, inhansinge, and raysinge the pryce of all kynd of commodytyes there. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 53 Such stragling by free, and vnfree English vsed in Germanie, and the townes of the Lowe Countries out of the Marte townes, is so vnseemely, vnmerchantlike [etc.]. 1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 80 Having lost their Priuiledges, partly by their owne Stragling. d. transferred and figurative (of persons and things). ΚΠ a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. G4^v Be thou stedfast and no doubt thou shalt not finde him stragling. 1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 329 The collicke..doth straggle ouer the whole region of the belly. 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 6 That sovran Book which we had fondly straggl'd from. a1661 T. Fuller Triana (1867) 188 Vices straggle not alone, but go in companies. a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §29 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 90 He that will observe Children, will find, that even when they endeavour their uttermost, they cannot keep their Minds from straggling. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶6 One of the last Year's little Muffs had by some means or other stragled into those Parts. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 35 To compress within three Lines, what must otherwise straggle into four. 1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man i. 5 Its sun-dial in a little bricked-up corner, where no sun had straggled for a hundred years. 1885 Athenæum 7 Feb. 193 Goldsmith..straggled into literature as the humble hack of Griffiths the bookseller. 1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy I. xxv. 138 Here let the novelty be my excuse if my pen straggle a little. e. Of a plant, branch, etc.: To grow irregularly or loosely; to spread or shoot too far. Also, of hair: to spread in lank or untidy strands. Cf. straggling adj. c. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged > specifically of plants or hair straggle1693 the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [verb (intransitive)] > thin, lank straggle1940 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Treat. Orange Trees x. 25 in Compl. Gard'ner To Cut away..all that part which grows out of due Rank, and stragles beyond its bound. 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 10 Though prudence, and our nature's pride May wish our weaknesses to hide, And set their hedges up before 'em, Some sprouts will branch, and straggle o'er 'em. 1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes i, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/2 How these tall Naked geraniums straggle! 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xvii. 106 Her dirty hair straggled on the pillow. 1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning i. 17 Her hair straggled untidily over the pillow. f. Of inanimate objects: To be arranged dispersedly or irregularly; to be situated apart from any main body or from one another. Of a town, building, etc.: To be built irregularly and without compactness. Of a road, river, fence, etc.: To wind in an irregular course. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged straggle1612 straggle1898 the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > change direction > turn or bend > bend or wind twine1553 crankle1598 crinklea1600 creek1610 straggle1612 wind1613 serpentize1699 wander1747 serpentine1767 meander1785 zigzag1787 serpentinize1791 twister1872 snake1875 twist1879 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xx. 39/1 The forme thereof is somewhat circular, with many indents to fetch in those Townes that are dispersedly stragled into her next shire. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. i. 607 Sometimes they finde it [silver] straggling, in peeces, not holding any continuing Veine. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 250 This said William Paston..lies buryed in Norwich; so that his corps..do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors, who..were all interred at Paston. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 31 The River Oder,..staggles so, as that to come to the City from Dam side, a man must pass over six bridges. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 290 A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xvi. 222 It [sc. the road]..straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. iii. 42 In another direction the houses went straggling away into a wood. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi The..township..straggled around the edge of a sombre watercourse. 2. Misused for straddle v. rare.Cf. dialect straggle-bug = straddle-bug, strag-legs (Ireland) = straddle-legs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] > straddle (of a thing) straddle1596 stride1605 straggle1609 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xi. 206 The whole multitude..came upon Georgius, whome they haled and tugged with his legs and feet wide stragling. 3. †a. transitive. To scatter, disperse. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (things) about in disorder scatterc1330 sparplea1350 tedc1560 straggle1589 squatter1611 disparple1613 flurr1661 litter1734 1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 19 The dead body of one of our boyes, found by them stragling all alone, from whom they had taken his head and his heart, and had stragled the other bowels about the place. b. passive. To be placed stragglingly. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] > be irregularly arranged straggle1612 straggle1898 1898 Secretan To Klondyke & Back 110 At this time the ‘City’ consisted of several hundred tents, straggled along in the mud for about a mile and a half. 1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 479/2 Few have seen the little, old town straggled along the backwater. Derivatives ˈstraggled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] disperse1393 distract1398 scattereda1425 skailed1488 dispersed1526 dissipate1606 dissipated1610 straggled1641 disjected1647 respersed1649 disparpled1652 disseminated1662 shattered1687 sundered1796 decentralized1851 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > irregularly arranged straggling1604 extravagant1608 scattering1610 squanderinga1616 scambling1702 scragglinga1722 wandering1785 straggly1862 straggled1884 1641 J. Shirley Cardinal (1652) v. iii. 62 Ha? if the Dutchess in her stragled wits, Let fall words to betray me to the Cardinal. 1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 33 Thronging and busie as Hyblæan Swarms, Or stragled Souldiers Summon'd to their Arms. 1787 P. Oliver 18 Mar. in T. Hutchinson Diary II. 424 Having nothing but a rusty straggled nail to write with. 1805 C. Collingwood Let. 24 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 217 The remnant of the Combined Fleet..stood up to leeward of my shattered and straggled charge as if meaning to attack them. 1884 ‘V. Lee’ C'tess Albany iii. 27 Its straggled, black and filthy streets. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 5/1 A rocky, splashing streamlet..fringed with patches of gorse and straggled belts of natural wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2021). stragglev.² /ˈstraɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: Of obscure origin. transitive. To rough-dress (a grindstone). Cf. straggling n.² (In recent dictionaries.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1488v.¹a1425v.²1917
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