Crossword clues for straggled
straggled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straggle \Strag"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling.] [Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
--Dryden.-
To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
--L'Estrange. -
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.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
--Mortimer. -
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. ``Straggling pistol shots.''
--Sir W. Scott.They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
--Sir W. Raleigh.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: straggle)
Usage examples of "straggled".
Forty Singers had logged out in that general area, and thirty-nine straggled in.
It flared up to light a face haggard with grief, with hair that straggled across tear-wet cheeks.
He straggled to help lower and haul in the trawling nets, slipped on fish guts, laughed when he got up covered with gore and slime - and was teased for the stench of him until the job was done and he could change.
This was the highest point to which any white man had ever ascended, except two Frenchmen-one of whom, Lepage, was now with us-who, having lost their way, had straggled a few miles farther, though to what place precisely I could not learn.
I felt a good deal so myself, and began to suspect that by some unfortunate accident, perhaps some of their enemies had straggled hither at this unlucky moment.
Drouilliard had been gone about two hours when an Indian, who had straggled some little distance down the river, returned and reported that the white men were coming, that he had seen them just below.
This morning we had considerable difficulty in collecting our horses, they having straggled off to a considerable distance in search of food on the sides of the mountains among the thick timber.
He halted to let the horses graze, during which time a heavy shower of rain raised the creek so high that several horses which had straggled across the channel of this creek were obliged to swim back.
Janney straggled down to the ship, studied the proposed hand and with a knowing trick pulled up his shirt to expose his back.
Half of her American friends had fled, and later had straggled back-those who had not felt too silly.
The Jews, a forlorn little group, straggled back to the dining room, with men in black surrounding them.
By quarter past seven her guests, including Kirby, had straggled in, brushing and stamping off snow, but the dinner was still stalled.
They straggled through one vast room after another, apparently unaltered since Czarist days, richly furnished in French or Italian or English styles, crammed with paintings and statuary, with no visible purpose except to overawe.
From the air I saw German tanks, trucks, and gun carriages straggled over hundreds of miles of desolate plains, frozen in mud or bogged in snow under the gloomy low Russian sun.
His face, a light yellow or beige when clean, was wrinkled brown and black with dirt, and his hair straggled greasily about his temples and collar.