Crossword clues for ambling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amble \Am"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Ambling.] [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in LL., to amble, perh. fr. amb-, ambi-, and a root meaning to go: cf. Gr. ? to go, E. base. Cf. Ambulate.]
To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.
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To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down.
--Shak.Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who ambles. vb. (present participle of amble English)
Usage examples of "ambling".
For the first half hour after leaving the Rocking B, Roland and Jake rode east toward the smallholds in silence, their horses ambling side by side in perfect good fellowship.
They rode toward town four abreast at that same ambling gait, but where the East Road crossed another, this one going north and south, Roland pulled up.
No focus anymore, just mindless ambling, spending his blood, dying in profound shock and absolute terror.
They found themselves ambling west on a dirt road that ran between two fields of pale green grain, rippling in a soft wind.
Lydia watched Matt ambling along piling his plate at the breakfast tables and felt like saying the same.
Soon the long hedgerows could be seen ambling away in no particular pattern.
With his sword he sliced the green shoot of a branchlet, and chewed it as he walked, ambling.
Within sight of the manor Periwinkle stopped cantering and slipped into a gentle ambling trot, for the danger, it seemed, was left behind now.
Fancy dear Mr Sheepshanks, in all his tippets and toggery, ambling and capering round poor me, and trying to drive the devil out of me with a broomful of holy water!
A couple of metres from the path a gardener servitor was ambling round an old tree stump which was now hidden beneath the shaggy coat of a stephanotis creeper.
Even as this horrible realization came to her, the first young strid forced its way through the opening, and came ambling across the web toward her on its eight hairy legs.
He watched that particular bedroll with his one good eye, then started ambling toward it, roughly cuffing a round of unsplit snag wood aside.
The speaker was the exuberant Colonel Elijah Hudson, who was ambling down the railbed as though he were merely taking a morning stroll.
It moved at an ambling walk, and the only man erect in his saddle was the pennon bearer, and he was kept alert only by the occasional gust of wind from off the distant mountains that unexpectedly bellied out the heavy, silken banner and made fair to tear the ashwood shaft from his grasp.
Ambling around until he found a parked dyno that suited his purpose, he got in and drove away.