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noun

Straggler n.

One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.

A roving vagabond.

Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth. "Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers."

Something that stands alone or by itself.

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Etymology of 'Straggler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Straggler" Quotes from Famous Books

... to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied, "Why, you silly fellow, the horn will ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... pap, "sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, or Cytherea's breath." How the brother and sister would croon over him "with murmurs made to bless," calling him their "tender novice" "in the first bloom of his nigritude," their belated straggler from the "rear of darkness thin," their little night-shade, not deadly, their infantile Will-o'-the-wisp caught before his sins, their "poor Blot," "their innocent Blackness," their ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

... is beginning to shake too. It may be an Indian belonging to the band that the scout told about, but I still don't think we're in any danger of attack. We're in too small force to try it down here, but they might cut off a straggler." ...

— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler

... pathos, the shrieking of the winds outside softened to a wail, the angry beating of the rain against the panes diminished to a tranquil patter, and one by one the noises in the street subsided, until the hurrying footsteps of the last belated straggler died away in the distance and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... deserted save for an occasional straggler making his weary way home after a day spent in ministering to the wants and the pleasures of the strangers ...

— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes

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